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GMA’s bold plans eagerly awaited
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - July 11, 2001 - 12:00am
Late last week, President GMA told her regular press conference that she plans to issue a number of bold measures that would reverse the tide of negative economic news. I could almost hear the business community...
Live like pigs, drown like pigs!
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - July 9, 2001 - 12:00am
The video news clips of ANC’s Baguio bureau showed the extent of the tragedy. Only rooftops remained of some neighborhoods in our country’s...
A snap election is a terrible idea
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - July 6, 2001 - 12:00am
It must be the bitterness of the experience that led Erap associate, Atty. Crispin Remulla, to propose the holding of a snap election for president. In fact, I was amazed at the bitterness in Mr. Remulla’s...
Maybe Land Bank should be privatized!
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - July 4, 2001 - 12:00am
Land Bank and Metrobank are supposedly wondering if they should put up an asset management company with some foreign banks to take care of the non performing accounts of the two local banks. At about P29 billion...
Signs of stability in US economy?
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - July 2, 2001 - 12:00am
Comes the time when bad news is not news anymore. People get to the point when nothing surprises them. And if I am typical, I have even come to convince myself that maybe I shouldn’t...
Invest in S&T training now!
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - June 29, 2001 - 12:00am
It takes at least 15 years to properly educate and equip children with necessary skills and talents before they enter the workforce. The problem is teachers at the elementary and secondary level are not properly...
Action speaks louder than words
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - June 27, 2001 - 12:00am
Nothing better drove home the government’s determination to make the country investor friendly than the quick action initiated by DTI Secretary Mar Roxas in the...
Peace and order, first!
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - June 25, 2001 - 12:00am
Finance Secretary Lito Camacho reportedly laments the inability of Standard and Poor’s to see the positive things happening in the country. Frankly, they are...
GMA should focus on frontline services
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - June 19, 2001 - 12:00am
There is a phrase, maybe it can be called an objective, in the 50 plus page agenda for government of Joe de V that caught my attention. On the subject of having a unified effort to address the requirements of faster...
Is Joe de V good for GMA?
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - June 18, 2001 - 12:00am
If you ask the self righteous civil society types, of course the answer is a big, fat NO. Joe de V is of the past, a past that we should have long ago exorcised. They have a term for that malady and that is trapo...
A serious failure of intelligence
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - June 15, 2001 - 12:00am
I was abroad when I first heard of the kidnapping at Dos Palmas. I couldn't believe it. I thought there was something wrong with the story. I couldn't imagine how the Abu Sayyaf could have gone as far as Puerto Princesa...
Cleaning up government
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - June 13, 2001 - 12:00am
Nobody said the task of cleaning up government was going to be easy. We are now witnesses to a strong negative reaction from the entrenched bureaucracy to clean up. At the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the fat cats...
Blue skies for local airlines
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - June 11, 2001 - 12:00am
Over the past week, Philippine Airlines reported very modest profits, still a welcome bit of news given that it is still under financial rehabilitation. PAL also reported plans to extend its service to Vietnam, a...
Tough time to be a Filipino
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - June 6, 2001 - 12:00am
I still remember it as a proud moment to be a Filipino abroad. At about this time of the year in 1986, Ben Milano (a United Nations consultant) and I were asked to lead an impromptu discussion of the People Power...
People: Still humanity’s biggest problem
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - June 4, 2001 - 12:00am
LOS ANGELES, California – Whoever it was who once declared that he "loves humanity but it is people he can’t...
The politics of drug pricing
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - May 30, 2001 - 12:00am
One thing nice about the battle of vested interests in America is that, often enough, they are well matched. Take the case of drug pricing. On the one hand there are the drug companies who are heavy contributors...
We must empower Pinoy consumer
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - May 27, 2001 - 12:00am
The lesson we can learn from the current American experience with their economy is the importance of a large middle class with sufficient buying (or borrowing) power. Sheer consumer power is keeping the American...
Corporate social work is alive and well
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - May 23, 2001 - 12:00am
Shortly before the election, Manny Pangilinan wrote to react to a column item on PBSP. That is the Philippine Business for Social Progress and Manny is the incumbent chairman. I wrote in that column that perhaps,...
First on agenda: New Power Bill
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - May 21, 2001 - 12:00am
Now that the political season is hopefully over, it is time for our officials to face the tasks at hand. Because we cannot do anything, nothing for the poor or for civil society without money, the first thing we...
Some lessons for civil society
by DEMAND AND SUPPLY - May 17, 2001 - 12:00am
I don’t know what to make of civil society, that trendy buzz term supposedly imported from the Kennedy School of Government. From our recent experience, I suspect...
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