The Duterte government’s fiscal and expenditure program can be briefly summarized and characterized as one of over-spending and over-borrowings. Four proofs in three tables below will show why.

IN THE DAYS before COVID, I’d often get frustrated by the response that doctors would give when I turned up at their clinics with some infection or other: “It’s just a virus,” they’d say.

EVER SINCE photovoltaic cells started popping up on pocket calculators and building roofs a few decades ago, solar power has faced a key drawback:...

The prophet Abraham’s story is found in the Torah of the Hebrew bible, the Tanahk; in the Arabic Muslim Q’uran; and in the Christian Bible, in its Old Testament. Abraham is known as the patriarch of the Israelite people through Isaac1, the son born to him and Sarah in their old age, and the patriarch of Arabs through his son Ishmael2, born to Abraham and Hagar, Sara’s Egyptian servant.

The Philippines has a garbage problem that the world can see. Tons of our plastic waste continue to end up in the ocean. What...

Let me start with a little scenario. Tomorrow, one family or barkada will take a trip to the mountain resort of Baguio and then the...

THE one bright spot for the Philippines in the second half of the 21^st century is its growth. The average growth rate of GDP in the last six years was 6.5%, which exceeded the 4.8% average growth under the Arroyo administration and thus was considered the “new normal.

(Part 2) Digital transformation is part of what is known as the Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0, which includes, among others, artificial intelligence, the Internet of...

Boracay shutdown. Bungled OFW rescue mission in Kuwait. Presidential signing of an executive order on contractualization unacceptable to organized labor. A common thread obviously...

IT’S NOT JUST MANUFACTURING that’s struggling with disrupted logistics. As more countries bring down the shutters to limit the spread of the coronavirus, risks are rising for the world’s complex food supply networks. Snarl-ups in processing and transport could result in painful price spikes for many fresh goods, even if farms in developed markets can keep working through the outbreak.

Action for Economic Reforms (AER) will soon commemorate its 25th year. It was incorporated as a non-stock, non-profit organization in November 1996. Since the pandemic will not go away soon, AER has opted to do away with the fanfare for its silver anniversary. Instead, it has opted to have low key but meaningful activities.

Six days from today, citizens will troop to the polling places to cast their vote for 12 senators, the representative of their district, and...