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                    [ArticleID] => 264937
                    [Title] => Pork, IRA and other dead ends
                    [Summary] => In that paper of University of the Philippines economics professors on the deepening fiscal deficit and public debt crisis, one of the penultimate paragraphs stated: "If – a big small word – the Philippines does manage to avoid an economic collapse in the next two years, it will have been a first."

[DatePublished] => 2004-09-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134872 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1532076 [AuthorName] => MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 264675 [Title] => GMA vows to carry out painful reforms [Summary] => It is time to bite the bullet.

President Arroyo yesterday vowed to carry out painful economic and bureaucratic reforms needed to put an end to the widening budget gap, avert a fiscal crisis and keep the country’s economic growth on track for the next six years.

The President has also asked the country’s leaders — including those in the private sector — "to find in themselves the moral resources" to help implement the government’s "financial strategy" to avert a fiscal crisis and sustain economic growth.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 264692 [Title] => A new beginning? [Summary] => After more than a four-year absence from this space, this column resumes effective today and every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday hereafter. I’m tickled pink to be back, and raring to share views with you about issues of national concern. The STAR was my column’s home for over ten years. I had to go only when I joined government. I jokingly refer to that time as my period of temporary insanity. [DatePublished] => 2004-09-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134872 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1532076 [AuthorName] => MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 264547 [Title] => Gov’t implements ‘pain package’ [Summary] => No pain, no gain.

Malacañang has started implementing a six-year fiscal rehabilitation and recovery strategy that includes a crucial P166-billion "pain package" consisting of new taxes, power rate hikes and spending cuts that the country is expected to endure for at least three years to wipe out the deficit and balance the budget.

The plan is contained in Albay Rep. Joey Salceda’s 30-page "Roadmap to Fiscal Rehabilitation" which he submitted to President Arroyo last week. [DatePublished] => 2004-09-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805432 [AuthorName] => Paolo Romero [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
FISCAL REHABILITATION
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                    [Title] => Pork, IRA and other dead ends
                    [Summary] => In that paper of University of the Philippines economics professors on the deepening fiscal deficit and public debt crisis, one of the penultimate paragraphs stated: "If – a big small word – the Philippines does manage to avoid an economic collapse in the next two years, it will have been a first."

[DatePublished] => 2004-09-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134872 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1532076 [AuthorName] => MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 264675 [Title] => GMA vows to carry out painful reforms [Summary] => It is time to bite the bullet.

President Arroyo yesterday vowed to carry out painful economic and bureaucratic reforms needed to put an end to the widening budget gap, avert a fiscal crisis and keep the country’s economic growth on track for the next six years.

The President has also asked the country’s leaders — including those in the private sector — "to find in themselves the moral resources" to help implement the government’s "financial strategy" to avert a fiscal crisis and sustain economic growth.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 264692 [Title] => A new beginning? [Summary] => After more than a four-year absence from this space, this column resumes effective today and every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday hereafter. I’m tickled pink to be back, and raring to share views with you about issues of national concern. The STAR was my column’s home for over ten years. I had to go only when I joined government. I jokingly refer to that time as my period of temporary insanity. [DatePublished] => 2004-09-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134872 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1532076 [AuthorName] => MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 264547 [Title] => Gov’t implements ‘pain package’ [Summary] => No pain, no gain.

Malacañang has started implementing a six-year fiscal rehabilitation and recovery strategy that includes a crucial P166-billion "pain package" consisting of new taxes, power rate hikes and spending cuts that the country is expected to endure for at least three years to wipe out the deficit and balance the budget.

The plan is contained in Albay Rep. Joey Salceda’s 30-page "Roadmap to Fiscal Rehabilitation" which he submitted to President Arroyo last week. [DatePublished] => 2004-09-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805432 [AuthorName] => Paolo Romero [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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