NEWS & ARTICLES

From Threat to Crisis: Worse than Pandemic?   I started writing about the new blue economy in this column in Nov. 2015, just before the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Top political leaders of UN...

Inflation is an ever-looming threat to the survival of many small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It hurts business owners’ bottom lines in every possible way: it reduces consumer spending, especially on non-essential items; increases the cost of labor and raw materials; and places higher interest...

The pandemic has significantly changed the way people work. It has also affected the well-being of employees who had to learn how to work from home, then adjust to shifting social-distancing measures. Given their impact on the workforce’s productivity, these experiences and their effects on...

Based on the March 2022 Labor Force Survey of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), there are more than 17 million (M) informal sector workers, including tiangge (or flea market) and ambulant vendors, street vendors, and over 1.3M sari-sari stores which remain unregistered with the Bureau...

I once advised a company that launched a promo to increase revenues from a specific customer segment. The marketing team members who designed the promo were experienced experts. Yet, the promo flopped because the winners were NOT the segment they set out to target. Worse,...

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) comprise 99.51 percent of businesses in the Philippines. Yet, they employed 62.66 per cent of workers, and accounted for a mere 35.7 per cent of value added in 2020. These data clearly show that labor productivity among small businesses...

First, allow me to thank Secretary Fred Pascual for accepting again to serve the country, this time as DTI Secretary.  And thank you for your service to MAP.  I know Secretary Fred that you will continue to serve our country well for “good men never...

Dr. Niceto “Nick” Poblador’s book “Strategy in the New Age of Capitalism:  Collaborative and Inclusive Approaches to Value Creation” is a joy to read.  Reading Nick’s books is like visiting a chocolate store.  You want to take home everything in the shelf but you can...

ACCOUNTABILITY is a word that should be written in the stones that support the foundation of public service. Many times, those who get elected and those who serve forget that the oil that makes the gears of government run comes from the toils and labors...