Commentary
Unregulated power rate hikes: What are friends for?
October 31, 2024
The automatic power rate hike proposal is yet another step backward away from protecting consumers and regulating profit-seeking firms providing essential electricity services.
Mining incentives for our industrialization?
October 30, 2024
Incentives for mineral processing will support industrialization only if they prioritize Filipino firms over foreign ones and as part of a more comprehensive industrial policy.
What, more tax cuts on the rich…?
October 29, 2024
We should be skeptical about this nonsense that tax incentives for companies to establish corporate pension plans will create wealth for Filipino workers.
The fakeness of economic freedom indexes
October 17, 2024
The metrics of “economic freedom” indexes come from a narrow prioritization of so-called market freedoms and property rights that unfortunately doesn’t align with a broader and more inclusive understanding of economic well-being and development.
Korea-PH free trade agreement: Even BINI does better
September 24, 2024
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South Korea’s world class industries today were built on protectionist foundations – reason enough for the Philippine government and our economic managers to radically rethink the country’s obsolete free market globalization policies.
Are there less poor Filipinos?
July 26, 2024
There is much to be done to develop the Philippines. Among the first steps is being more honest about the real extent of poverty and underdevelopment.
5 economic distortions to watch out for in Marcos Jr’s 3rd SONA
July 22, 2024
Some bold distortions about the economy and the situation of the people, not the truth, can be expected at the third Marcos Jr SONA.
Against all repression, Spring is coming
June 19, 2024
Undemocracy and inequality and its attendant oppression and exploitation is what spurs so much resistance.
Philippine economy so right it’s wrong
June 18, 2024
The Philippine Economic Briefing tried so hard to show that everything is right with the economy that it only succeeded in showing everything that’s so wrong with it.
