Can’t give employees raises? Add benefits
By Sarah Green Carmichael
DESPITE FEARS of a slowdown, the labor market is still pretty tight. Most companies aren’t laying people off. They are more concerned about retaining...
Gaps in the halal industry in the Philippines: Call for legislating Philippine Halal Authority
By Potre Dirampatan Diampuan
ARE YOU a consumer or producer of halal food products? While Muslims are known to be the most concerned about consuming halal products, it...
Trusting technology
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
When was fire discovered?
“The earliest creatures that predated human beings were probably well aware of fire. When lightning would strike a forest and create...
The politics of an open economy and national security: A zero-sum game?
By Kristine C. Francisco-Alcantara
A mathematical model present in both economic theory and information security is the situation of a zero-sum game, where one participant’s gain or loss is exactly balanced by the losses or gains of the other participant.
Why the WTO Argentina Ministerial means nothing for the Philippines
By Jemy Gatdula
The “bicycle theory of international trade” goes a little like this: think of trade as a bicycle; you keep peddling or you stop and...
Competitiveness in a troubled world
By Philip Ella Juico
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the biggest event conceived by mankind, is over.
The cost of reliving the past
By Marvin A. Tort
It is easy enough to take for granted particularly every-day things. After all, anything common or ordinary tends to be forgotten quickly. We normally...
Ditch the ‘rules-based international order’
By Andreas Kluth
PEOPLE have laid down their lives for love, freedom, justice, the fatherland, and more. But nobody has ever died clutching the banner of the...
The other casualty of Trump
By Diwa C. Guinigundo
After about a week of debating how US President Donald Trump violated trade rules and economic common sense, and this is now becoming more...
High growth imperative and fiscal consolidation
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
The Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) composed of the Departments of Finance and Budget and Management (DoF and DBM), the National Economic and Development...
Grave threats with failed nuclear power plants
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
Russian forces captured the USSR-built Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, after a fierce battle on the first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Two elections
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
On Easter Monday, April 21, Pope Francis passed away peacefully at 7:35 a.m. in his room at Casa Santa Marta, a Vatican guesthouse where...