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[DatePublished] => 2003-12-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 228281 [Title] => Proper selection of would-be leaders [Summary] => Democracy is a kind of government where the people are given the freedom and opportunity to choose the leaders who shall run the government for them. This process of choosing a country’s leaders is through the exercise of the right of suffrage in an election that is conducted on a regular basis.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 227396 [Title] => A managed increase in money supply is not inflationary [Summary] => A reader e-mailed to comment on this column’s proposal for the enactment of a law to require the BSP to buy government bonds. [DatePublished] => 2003-11-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 223259 [Title] => A crusade against graft and corruption [Summary] => The social contract that is the cornerstone of all civil society is that government is set up by the people themselves and is supported by them through payment of taxes so that government, in turn, will serve the needs of the people. The people surrender the power of governance to the government in return for the protection they get from it as well as the receipt of government services that makes for a decent quality of life, if not a high quality of living, for the people.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 218488 [Title] => Innovate or perish [Summary] => One of the most difficult things to do is change the way people think, as their thoughts are controlled by their own actions. It is even worse when people in government themselves are averse to effect change for fear of rocking the boat. Many more in government are afraid to make changes out of apprehension of being sued under our graft laws. Yet, difficult as it is to do, there are compelling situations when we have to change, when the only alternative of not changing or innovating is to perish.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217632 [Title] => The plight of the Filipino businessmen [Summary] => The Philippines was colonized by Spain for about four hundred years, by the United States for about forty years from the early 1900s, and about four years by Japan during World War II. During all these periods of colonization, the Filipinos, by and large, were merely workers as very few entered into the realm of business.
On the other hand, throughout all these times, the ubiquitous Chinese businessmen were always about town engaged in trade and commerce, buying and selling goods.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 216043 [Title] => A five-point counterplan (Against the onslaught of foreign consumer products) [Summary] => The buzzwords of international trade today are globalization, trade, liberalization and the all-encompassing theory of the free market forces.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 215246 [Title] => The needed banking strategy (Of both government and private banks) [Summary] => In order for a country to fully develop, it is a requisite, sine qua non, that its banking system be properly structured and guided. Banks play a critical role in a developing economy. The banking sector provides the wherewithal to finance business transactions. The banks lend the money needed by the entrepreneurs and businessmen to run and expand production. The banks direct the flow of money to the priority areas of development.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 214418 [Title] => The need to restructure the financial system [Summary] => Today’s article will continue to delve on the imperative of establishing, organizing and re-capitalizing the banks that comprise the financial system of the country. Last week’s article espoused the creation of two new specialized banks, that is, the Philippine Industrial Bank and the Philippine Export Bank.
To these specialized banks, we add a third and equally important one, the Philippine Tourism Bank. We shall likewise emphasize the need to re-organize and re-capitalize both the Development Bank of the Philippines and the Land Bank of the Philippines.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 228281 [Title] => Proper selection of would-be leaders [Summary] => Democracy is a kind of government where the people are given the freedom and opportunity to choose the leaders who shall run the government for them. This process of choosing a country’s leaders is through the exercise of the right of suffrage in an election that is conducted on a regular basis.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 227396 [Title] => A managed increase in money supply is not inflationary [Summary] => A reader e-mailed to comment on this column’s proposal for the enactment of a law to require the BSP to buy government bonds. [DatePublished] => 2003-11-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 223259 [Title] => A crusade against graft and corruption [Summary] => The social contract that is the cornerstone of all civil society is that government is set up by the people themselves and is supported by them through payment of taxes so that government, in turn, will serve the needs of the people. The people surrender the power of governance to the government in return for the protection they get from it as well as the receipt of government services that makes for a decent quality of life, if not a high quality of living, for the people.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 218488 [Title] => Innovate or perish [Summary] => One of the most difficult things to do is change the way people think, as their thoughts are controlled by their own actions. It is even worse when people in government themselves are averse to effect change for fear of rocking the boat. Many more in government are afraid to make changes out of apprehension of being sued under our graft laws. Yet, difficult as it is to do, there are compelling situations when we have to change, when the only alternative of not changing or innovating is to perish.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217632 [Title] => The plight of the Filipino businessmen [Summary] => The Philippines was colonized by Spain for about four hundred years, by the United States for about forty years from the early 1900s, and about four years by Japan during World War II. During all these periods of colonization, the Filipinos, by and large, were merely workers as very few entered into the realm of business.
On the other hand, throughout all these times, the ubiquitous Chinese businessmen were always about town engaged in trade and commerce, buying and selling goods.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 216043 [Title] => A five-point counterplan (Against the onslaught of foreign consumer products) [Summary] => The buzzwords of international trade today are globalization, trade, liberalization and the all-encompassing theory of the free market forces.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 215246 [Title] => The needed banking strategy (Of both government and private banks) [Summary] => In order for a country to fully develop, it is a requisite, sine qua non, that its banking system be properly structured and guided. Banks play a critical role in a developing economy. The banking sector provides the wherewithal to finance business transactions. The banks lend the money needed by the entrepreneurs and businessmen to run and expand production. The banks direct the flow of money to the priority areas of development.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 214418 [Title] => The need to restructure the financial system [Summary] => Today’s article will continue to delve on the imperative of establishing, organizing and re-capitalizing the banks that comprise the financial system of the country. Last week’s article espoused the creation of two new specialized banks, that is, the Philippine Industrial Bank and the Philippine Export Bank.
To these specialized banks, we add a third and equally important one, the Philippine Tourism Bank. We shall likewise emphasize the need to re-organize and re-capitalize both the Development Bank of the Philippines and the Land Bank of the Philippines.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148842 [AuthorName] => Atty. Romeo G. Roxas [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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