Malacañang downplays PERC survey on red tape
By
Marvin Sy
| June 4, 2010 - 12:00am
Malacañang downplayed the reports of the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) that said the Philippines has one of the most inefficient bureaucracies in Asia.
Headlines
EDITORIAL – Merit, not connections
April 26, 2008 - 12:00am
Before her seven-year term ended last Feb. 1, Karina Constantino-David voiced her frustrations in her job as head of the Civil Service Commission.
Opinion
Politicized
By
SKETCHES
| By
Ana Marie Pamintuan
| January 23, 2008 - 12:00am
The world’s most successful economies — those that do not rely chiefly on petrodollars for prosperity — have several things in common.
Opinion
150 Dagupan gov’t workers lose jobs
By
Eva Visperas
| September 3, 2006 - 12:00am
DAGUPAN CITY — About 150 emergency workers and technical consultants at the city hall here lost their jobs when the city government finally decided to trim down its bloated bureaucracy to save at least P1 million...
Nation
Destroying the career bureaucracy
By
Boo Chanco
| October 10, 2005 - 12:00am
I am certain that historians would look at today’s events in this country with utter disdain. Filipino politicians have never been known to place the national interest ahead of their own, but this one takes...
Business
EDITORIAL – An exemplary public servant
September 15, 2005 - 12:00am
In the month dedicated to Philippine civil servants, Haydee Yorac succumbed to cancer. She battled the illness as spiritedly as she waged the other battles of her life, fighting for human rights during the Marcos...
Opinion
Prevention
By
FIRST PERSON
| By
Alex Magno
| March 12, 2005 - 12:00am
There were no surprises in the freshly released results of a region-wide perception survey on corruption incidence undertaken by the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC). The Philippines ranked with the...
Opinion
EDITORIAL - Honesty and efficiency
September 19, 2004 - 12:00am
The civil service marks its 104th year this month with plans for drastic downsizing in the bureaucracy to address fiscal problems. With earnings that are barely higher than the minimum wage, Philippine civil servants...
Opinion
Adverse selection
By
FIRST PERSON
| By
Alex Magno
| August 21, 2004 - 12:00am
Government has announced that it would offer early retirement to public servants in order to reduce the size of the bureaucracy and trim away useless fat. Enough incentives will be offered so that bureaucrats may...
Opinion
Lean and mean
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SKETCHES
| By
Ana Marie Pamintuan
| July 30, 2004 - 12:00am
If President Arroyo is determined to create a "lean and mean" bureaucracy, as she promised in her recent State of the Nation Address (SONA), she better start meaning what she says.
Opinion
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