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Bienvenido Oplas Jr.
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Spending and borrowing cut to attain fiscal sustainability
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - May 22, 2025 - 12:00am
Some recent stories and reports related to public finance and economics have caught my attention.
Some outlier results in senatorial elections, no blackout
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - May 15, 2025 - 12:00am
I say “outlier” results in the May 12 Senatorial elections because of surprising strong ranking of Bam Aquino at second, Kiko Pangilinan at fifth and Dante Marcoleta at sixth places, when various surveys...
Low inflation and unemployment, high growth and trade
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - May 8, 2025 - 12:00am
While the coming elections on Monday, May 12, is largely about personalities, economic issues also play a big part in campaign debates. I will discuss four issues as recent data released by the Philippine Statistics...
High growth, no new taxes, beautiful direction
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - May 1, 2025 - 12:00am
A number of good news and beautiful reports that I read this week. See these stories in The Philippine STAR: “ No new taxes to be imposed, says DOF” (April 29), ‘Too early to tinker with growth...
Philippines in top 3 fastest growing economies in 2023 and 2024
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - April 24, 2025 - 12:00am
The IMF released the World Economic Outlook April 2025 last Tuesday. I downloaded the database Excel files, I checked the numbers on GDP size both in current values and purchasing power parity values and...
Corporate rationality and NGOs irrationality in electricity pricing
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - April 17, 2025 - 12:00am
Last week and this week, there were a number of important developments in the Philippine electricity sector.
Declining global energy prices and Philippines electricity pricing
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - April 10, 2025 - 12:00am
Among the unintentional results of the ongoing tariff war between the US and China plus other countries is low global energy prices.
China electricity and transport modernization
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - April 3, 2025 - 12:00am
Bright roads and buildings, extensive subway trains covering 880 kilometers in this city alone, high-speed rail covering 45,000 kilometers across the country and a rising number of electric vehicles (EVs) from e-bikes...
Net growth via more coal power
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - March 27, 2025 - 12:00am
From December 2024 up to this month, many big global banks have left and abandoned the Net Zero Banking Alliance formed in 2021. They realized that they are not optimizing their resources entrusted to them by their...
From energy regulation to deregulation (Part 3)
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - March 20, 2025 - 12:00am
This is a continuation of the previous articles this year in this column , “From energy regulation to deregulation” Part 1 (Jan. 25) and Part 2 (Feb. 6). In Part 1, the three regulations I discussed were...
Government revenues are fine but spending cut is needed
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - March 13, 2025 - 12:00am
The Bureau of the Treasury  released the cash operations report for full year 2024 the other week. So annual data is now complete and comparable, here are some of the important results.
Low inflation, low borrowings via PhilHealth idle fund transfer
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - March 6, 2025 - 12:00am
Yesterday, the Philippine Statistics Authority released the inflation data for February 2025 at only 2.1 percent, nice.
Meralco finance and GDP congruence, energy regulation incongruence
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - February 27, 2025 - 12:00am
Last Monday, Feb. 24 , I attended the 2024 Meralco Financials Operating Results: Media Briefing held at Grand Hyatt in BGC, Taguig City.
A growth target of 7% is viable
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - February 20, 2025 - 12:00am
Last week this column argued “Why Philippine growth of six to 6.5 percent in 2025 is possible.”
Why Philippine growth of 6 to 6.5% in 2025 is possible
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - February 13, 2025 - 12:00am
The three quick reasons for this argument are: election cycle growth, low base growth and declining unemployment and inflation.
From energy regulation to deregulation, Part 2
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - February 6, 2025 - 12:00am
In 2000 or one year before the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA, RA 9136), the primary energy consumption (PEC, for transportation, cooking, electricity, etc.) of these four ASEAN countries in exajoules...
From energy regulation to deregulation, Part 1
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - January 30, 2025 - 12:00am
The Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA, RA 9136) was signed on June 8, 2001, and will turn 24 in five months. I will compare electricity production from 2001 onward in the three largest ASEAN countries by...
On school reunions and celebration of friendship
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - January 23, 2025 - 12:00am
Last weekend, Jan. 18-19, I attended our high school annual reunion at the former Cadiz City High School in Negros Occidental, Batch 1980. It was our 45th anniversary. When we graduated in 1980, there were 12 sections...
Lower unemployment, inflation and electricity prices
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - January 16, 2025 - 12:00am
Last week, the Philippine Statistics Authority released the labor data for November 2024, with the unemployment rate at 3.2 percent – an all-time low except in June 2024 and December 2023 with 3.1 percent....
Toward more gas power development in the Phl
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - January 9, 2025 - 12:00am
The fastest-growing major economies in the world – those in the top 50 largest GDP size – are mostly Asians. For instance, the average GDP growth from 2015-2023 were as follows: Vietnam, six percent;...
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