By Noah Smith, Bloomberg View
IN THE DEBATE over climate change, there is one group you don’t hear much from: economists. The failure of climate economics to make a difference in the public discussion about climate policy should be a concern for the profession.
LITTLE HAS CHANGED in Bacuit Bay, home of three of the four El Nido Resorts (ENR), in the last millennium. Its craggy limestone cliffs have been that way for the last 250 million years. All that might have changed in the 1960s and ’70s when commercial logging and fishing became the area’s main sources of revenues but because the bay was declared a turtle sanctuary and eventually a protected area, its biodiversity and natural balance has been maintained.
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Nanette Franco-Diyco
I WAS SCANNING the Internet, carefully noting down links to Lenten recollections, spiritual readings, and inspirational talks to recommend to my family for our Holy Week vacation, when I came across a most delightful 5-minute digital video that thoroughly made me declare an intermission from the very serious task I had assigned myself.
THE number of jobless Filipinos last January dropped to a 10-year low. Based on the preliminary results of the latest quarterly Labor Force Survey (LFS) of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the unemployment rate fell to 5.8% from 6.6% in January of last year, thinning the ranks of the jobless to 2.469 million.
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Check out the performance of foreign direct investments in the Philippines for the whole year of 2015.
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
He was holding it, caressing it. A man, a stranger, wearing short shorts, sunglasses, and cap, was masturbating in a jeepney I was riding in Manila. The other passengers were all women. Some were oblivious, but I, I was sitting in front of him and saw him doing it. As quick as I could, I hopped off. I didn’t call anyone for help, but only texted a friend to tell her the story. It was infuriating, at the same time frightening.
AS ONLINE DELIVERIES surge and shop sales fall, Britain’s retailers are looking to refit their once bustling superstores with new attractions such as rivals’ fashion brands to fill empty spaces and keep shoppers coming through the door.
