THE NEW BILL on telecommuting, allowing employees to work from home, has more implications than just employment status and traffic. What is its impact on office attire? Will working from home shift office attire towards sleepwear -- like boxer shorts and school tee shirts (Back-two-Back)?

Almost 18 years have gone by now since Congress passed Republic Act No. 9003, known as the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act. The law...

I write this column four days after former President Benigno S. Aquino III or, to me, simply President Noy, passed away on June 24....

IT is also said that the meek shall inherit the earth. By meek they don’t mean small and scared but someone who is kind, forgiving and most of all humble. I respect this value and one incident in my life has made it a permanent part of my life.

I AM WRITING THIS from Amritsar, India, in the state of Punjab. The Sikh Golden Temple here is one of India’s leading attractions, and last night I shared space with thousands of people over the course of four or five hours. In that time, I saw only two people who might qualify as White Westerners.

Exactly a month ago, former Economic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia (then the concurrent chair of the Commission on Population and Development or POPCOM, where I work as Executive Director) sent me a text.

Mainstreaming some economic ideas becomes easier when enough focus is dedicated to it during the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group. After years of absence, for instance, inflation took center stage again during this April’s hybrid Spring Meetings. Fund economists behind the World Economic Outlook (WEO) have started talking about it and raising the red flags to global growth because of price pressures building up both in the US and big markets, and in small developing and emerging markets.

It is said that it takes at least five years to see either the benefits and/or the ill effects of a particular legislation. However, now that we are in an inflation jam, it only took six months to see the very negative effects from the imposition of more taxes.

COMPANIES face geopolitical upheavals, supply chain disruption, inflation, and the threat of recession. Despite this perfect storm, their commitment to decarbonization hasn’t fundamentally wavered. The number of companies embracing science-based targets is continuing to grow at a rapid pace.

The White House has released its national security strategy, a document put out by every US presidential administration in order to spell out its...

Since the phenomenon of the OFW will be with us for at least the next decade or so (and possibly indefinitely into the future), it was indeed a wise move for the Government to create the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW), now headed by very experienced and knowledgeable labor expert Susan Ople.

HOW DO WE ensure that the world has access to the COVID-19 vaccines needed to prevent more variants like the latest Omicron strain from emerging?