Quo vadis post Quo Warranto
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
Perhaps “quo warranto” will now be recalled by the name Maria Lourdes Sereno, the first Chief Justice removed from office by it. The Office...
Renewable portfolio standards help usher in new era of RE dev’t
By Jose M. Layug, Jr.
ON Dec. 22, 2017, Department of Energy (DoE) signed the landmark Department Circular No. 2017-12-0015 promulgating the “Rules and Guidelines...
Quo vadis quo warranto?
By Jemy Gatdula
It’s interesting that the very people who keep screaming “protect the Supreme Court’s independence” can’t stand it when the Court decides to act independently...
‘Protection’s’ price
By Luis V. Teodoro
President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement that China has promised to protect the Philippines from external threats immediately raises two questions.
Who or what these external threats...
Visual clues
By Maria Victoria Rufino
The medium that has a great impact on the public is television. Radio has a broader reach. Social media has become the most effective...
What the US didn’t learn from the Asian Financial Crisis
By Daniel Moss
IS the US better off trying to shape the world as party to an imperfect international accord, or as an outsider insisting...
Humanistic management and competitiveness
By Benito L. Teehankee
Following tradition, President Duterte released an Executive Order on Labor Day to somehow address the expressed needs of the country’s workers. As expected, most...
Intellectual property, innovation, and prosperity
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
The BusinessWorld Economic Forum 2018 is fast approaching this coming May 18 and it has a timely theme, “Disruptor or Disrupted? The Philippines at...
Fighting malaria and dengue
By Marvin A. Tort
The world was well on its way to controlling malaria -- a very old disease transmitted through mosquito bite, much like dengue -- until...
Remember Marx for how much he got wrong
By Noah Smith
ON May 5, admirers of Karl Marx celebrated his 200th birthday. Marx didn’t make it to 200, but the ideas he injected...
Nowhere but up? Dissecting inflation
By Weslene Uy
While on the sidelines of the ADB Meeting last week, Socieconomic Secretary Ernesto Pernia announced that consumer prices rose by a five-year high of...
Electricity competition, EPIRA, and WESM
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
Last Monday, I discussed business competition in general and the role of the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC).
The theme will be continued in this piece...