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Cutting Bureaucracy, Not Corners: LGU Successes in EODB
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April 15, 2025
April 15, 2025
A few weeks ago, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. issued Proclamation No. 818 declaring May as Ease of Doing Business Month. Although primarily ceremonial, the move strategically emphasizes streamlining bureaucracy and promoting transparency in public service. By further empowering the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA), this...
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Structured Internships in a Lifelong Learning Law (2nd of 2 Parts)
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April 8, 2025
April 8, 2025
2nd of 2 Parts Miseducation: cross-generation LLL emergencies The various miseducation crises of the Philippines published in EDCOM II’s first two year reports are forms of social cancer that spread insidiously across the body politic in different people, places and time. They must be...
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Structured Internships in a Lifelong Learning Law
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April 1, 2025
April 1, 2025
1st of 2 Parts Enhancing national competitiveness and social equity through experiential education is recognized in the Philippines by EDCOM II, the body tasked with examining the foundational reforms needed by the country’s entire training system – formal, informal, or non-formal. Experiential or real life...
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Women Economics at Osaka World Expo
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March 25, 2025
March 25, 2025
Back almost 15 years ago, I engaged with WeConnect International and had a dream to go global with coffee. I met Elizabeth Vazquez, founding trustee, who brought many American companies to the task of procuring from WOEs, or Women-owned enterprises. In Chongqing, China, we were...
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Breaking Free
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March 18, 2025
March 18, 2025
Our nation’s greatest tragedy is not poverty, corruption, or external threats—it’s our paralysis in the face of these challenges. The current socioeconomic-political system, dominated by oligarchs and political dynasties, has proven immune to reform, absorbing and neutralizing every attempt at change. Elections, legislation, and advocacy...
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Focus on the Sea More Than Land
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March 11, 2025
March 11, 2025
Our country has more seawater than land. It is time we focus more on the sea as a means to sustain our lives through aquaculture, on top of agriculture. Look at the difference of Philippine territories expressed in terms of kilometers covered by seawater...
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Are you ready for 2030?
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March 4, 2025
March 4, 2025
I remember the Y2K phenomenon when right before the year became 2000, everyone was waiting for the start of the millennium because people said computers could blow up, files may forever be lost and anything we had saved in our laptops would disappear into thin...
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5 Steps to Mitigating SME Cash Flow Gaps
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February 25, 2025
February 25, 2025
Henry, the managing director of a facade maintenance company based in Manila, was having a great day – until he walked into his client’s office. Instead of collecting a promised ₱3 million check, he was met with a casual apology. “You’ll have it next week,”...
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Great Women – It’s Women’s Month
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February 18, 2025
February 18, 2025
It will be Women’s Month again and I cannot help but look back at our journey while promoting the brand and its ethos: great women. The meaning was a mouthful to say: Gender Responsive Economic Actions for the Transformation of Women. And that spelled an...
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