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No to teaching Tagalog in higher education!

By Bobit S. Avila | July 10, 2014 - 12:00am

I had fun when I attended the Public Consultation by the Commission on Higher Education on the proposed use of Filipino in teaching the General Education Courses and the addition of Filipino as a Core Course at the...

Freeman Opinion

How to avoid epic fail

By Scott R. Garceau | February 11, 2013 - 12:00am

Feel fortunate, Filipinos, that plenty of economic models out there are way more dysfunctional than that of the Philippines.

Lifestyle Business

Trickle down isn’t good enough

By Boo Chanco | February 6, 2013 - 12:00am

Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima must have anticipated the ho-hum response of most people to the good news about our GDP growth rate for last year. He told the business group that listened to the Roubini talk, somewhat...

Business

Philippine economic history through the perspective of ‘institutions’

By Gerardo P. Sicat | November 28, 2012 - 12:00am

The key words employed to analyze economic and political institutions and policies in the book reviewed last week in this column, Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, could help shed light on...

Business

How nations grow, or why nations fail

By Gerardo P. Sicat | November 21, 2012 - 12:00am

A book published this year represents a breakthrough in the understanding of long term economic development of nation states.

Business