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Our destructive foreign investment fetish
March 28, 2022
Is foreign direct investment the magic bullet for development that it is so often made out to be? Not really, if we look at the Philippine experience with unjaundiced eyes.
Halalan 2022: Ang paghahangad ng bagong ekonomiya
February 17, 2022
Gumugulong na ang kampanyang elektoral para sa Halalan 2022. Umiingay na ang mga kandidato sa kanilang mga planong gawin para sa bayan. Pero hindi maitatanggi na magiging napakalaking hamon para sa susunod na presidente at administrasyon ang pag-kumpuni ng iniwang krisis ng gobyernong Duterte. Hindi ito magiging madali. Dinaranas ng mamamayan ang masahol na kalagayan. […]
Yearstarter 2022: Out with the old, seeking the new
February 5, 2022
The next administration will not only have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of the Duterte administration’s COVID-19 response. It will also have to fix many things going wrong with the economy even before the pandemic hit.
Fixing PH neoliberal economics: What is to be done?
December 28, 2021
Neoliberal PH underdevelopment
December 17, 2021
Economic policies determine economic outcomes – and the Philippine economy is the way it is by design, not by accident.
Challenge for the new administration: Fixing the Philippine Economy
November 24, 2021
An occasional discussion paper on various socio-economic policies
Lahutay: A Path to Sustainability
October 27, 2021
2021 Yearstarter: Solving the pandemic crisis
February 21, 2021
The Philippines has the worst performing economy in ASEAN and is set to have the worst performing to as far away as South Asia and the rest of East Asia
2020: Beginning of the End?
February 11, 2020
The administration oddly launched a ‘Duterte Legacy’ campaign with almost two-and-a-half years still left in its term. Likely with a view to the 2022 elections, it will backfire as the public becomes more discerning and less easily manipulated than the administration assumes. The durability of the Duterte administration will be tested in 2020. It will […]
