It’s now or never to meet climate goals for the Philippines — and every...
By Kari Punnonen
TO ACHIEVE our climate targets, we need carbon emissions to peak by 20251 and halve by the end of this decade.
The urgency of the...
A less taxing chapter through estate tax amnesty
By Pia Justine S. Rodulfo
As death signifies loss and grief, estate taxes are unsurprisingly the last thing on the minds of bereaved families. Estate tax is imposed on...
Diversifying revenue streams for SMEs
By Benedict S. Carandang
With economic turbulence not letting up post-pandemic, the adage “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” has never rung truer.
For Philippine small and...
If the Senate leak was erroneous or just chismis, is it still a leak?
By Oscar P. Lagman, Jr.
The Senate plenary session on Tuesday last week was perturbed when Senator Jinggoy Estrada expressed dismay at the revelation of what transpired in their...
Stabilizing growth of the fastest growing major economy in the world
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
Last week the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released the country’s GDP performance in the third quarter (Q3) of 2023. It was high at 5.9%, and, when compared with most large economies in the world, it was outstanding and excellent.*
Women, collective action, and institutions: Lessons from personal politics in the context of transitional...
By Ma. Lourdes Veneracion
The “personal is political” is a feminist adage coined by Carol Hanisch in 1968 that challenged the public-private divide and conveyed the message that...
From FAPE/PEAC to PhilEd
By Victor S. Limlingan
We recently presented a paper at the 5th Paderanga-Varela Memorial Lecture entitled “Alternate Service Delivery Systems: Health and Education.” In that lecture, we looked...
CREATE MORE: Creating more troubles
By Pia Rodrigo
In 2021, the Philippine government legislated a breakthrough reform called the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) Act.
CREATE, formerly packaged as the...
‘Pray pa more’ for better times
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
On Oct. 26, the Monetary Board (MB) raised the reference interest rate by 25 basis points to 6.5% effective Oct. 27, earlier than the...
Lung cancer: What you need to know
By Teodoro B. Padilla
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Lung cancer is the second most common type of cancer in the Philippines after breast cancer, according to...
Is capitalism dead? Yanis Varoufakis thinks it is — and he knows who killed...
By Christopher Pollard
Yanis Varoufakis grew up during the Greek dictatorship of 1967-1974. He later became an economics professor and was briefly Greek finance minister in 2015.
His...
The social media evolution: Web2 vs Web3
By Donald Patrick Lim
Have you ever wondered about the forces that shape the digital world, the platforms we use daily, and the influence they exert on our...