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Invest in the Philippines Today
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April 29, 2024
The Board of Investments (BOI) has approved a total of P1.16 trillion worth of investments for 2023, which marked not only a 59-percent growth from the previous year, but also a record high for the agency. For the year 2024, the BOI is eyeing to...
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B2B Dialogue with the Lithuanian Delegation
2024
April 25, 2024
[IN PHOTO] (Seated, L-R) Ambassador of Lithuania to the Republic of Korea and to the Republic of the Philippines and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary H.E. Ričardas Šlepavičius; Ministry of Foreign Affairs External Economic Affairs and Economic Security Policy Department Head of Export and Investment Promotion...
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April 24 GMM with Silverlens Co-Gallery Directors Isa Lorenzo and Rachel Rillo
2024
April 24, 2024
(IN PHOTO, L-R) MAP President RENE ALMENDRAS, MAP Arts & Culture Committee Chair LORNA KAPUNAN, Silverlens Gallery Co-Gallery Directors ISA LORENZO and RACHEL RILLO, and MAP Secretary KAREN BATUNGBACAL. Induction of New MAP Members (L-R) MAP Health Committee Chair and Emcee RAC CAGURANGAN; JCV &...
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A Layman’s Version of Climate Change Adaptation
MAP Insights
April 23, 2024
I am so happy to have met an enlightened civil servant who shared his insights about climate change. After all, he is a Commissioner of the Climate Change Commission. Albert dela Cruz, Sr. is so interested in sharing his sci-entific explanations for climate adaptation. He...
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What Each Filipino Can Do to Help Build Dream Philippines
MAPping the Future
April 22, 2024
(Second of two parts) This article continues the enumeration of 28 strategic objectives that will help make Dream Philippines 2046 happen. The first 15 were published here on April 15. 16. Greater attention to food security and sustainability Even if government gives priority to promoting...
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Food Security: The Other Paradigm
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April 16, 2024
Many economists think of scale and clustering as the only way to be food secure. Entrepreneurs tend to think differently. I was recently in Batanes where they seem to have no issues about food security. It is because they learned to deal with the scarcity...
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What Each Filipino Can Do to Help Build Dream Philippines
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April 15, 2024
(First of two parts) In continuation of my article last Jan. 15 and Feb. 26, the 28 strategic objectives that will help make Dream Philippines 2046 happen are enumerated here, together with some suggestions on how each Filipino can contribute. 1. A virtues-based society It...
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Social Innovation in Sablayan
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April 9, 2024
When I learned that Sablayan, Mindoro Occidental was the site of the Sablayan Prisons and Penal Farm (SPPF), the Philippines’ largest penal colony with a sprawling 16,190 square meters, I promised myself that I would help, even in some small way, some of the 1,800+...
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Sharing Prosperity with Employees
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April 8, 2024
The economist Arthur Pigou explained in his seminal “The Economics of Welfare” that in a competitive market, workers would be paid an amount equivalent to their marginal contribution to production. However, when market conditions deviate from perfect competition, workers could be exploited by being paid...
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