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The pandemic is the fastest accelerator of technology. We had to quickly embrace the change or risk not being able to get our needs during the lockdown. Digital platforms in a flash made everything and everyone reachable, rendering borders and distance superfluous. To continue functioning,...

For its June 14, 2023 general membership meeting at the Shangri-La The Fort, the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) invited Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga to discuss the national priorities on environment, natural resources and climate change. In...

The ratification of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement by the Philippine Senate last February may be the push that Philippine small and medium enterprises (SMEs) need to go global. The RCEP agreement covers one-third of the world’s population—roughly 30 percent of the world’s...

In my previous article, I discussed the concept of pre-populated tax return and how it can make paying taxes as easy as 1-2-3 using behavioral science. To recall, a pre-populated tax return is a tax return that the government fills in on behalf of the...

One of the existing programs of the University of the Philippines (UP) is the Archipelagic and Ocean Studies Program, which is intended to underscore the country’s “archipelagic reality” as the basis for the formulation of developmental strategies. In line with this program, and in view...

In the Chrism Mass last Holy Thursday, the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila (RCAM), Cardinal Jose Advincula, launched the Traslacion RCAM Road Map Project, the journey of renewal for the archdiocese, which he and his priests had been working on since October...

When the disaster strikes, the first order of the day is to examine the numerous factors that may have triggered, worsened or diminished the effects of such catastrophic events. The objective is to keep a ‘stable’ perspective and not to add internal upheaval to an...

(Conclusion) There are four industry clusters in which the Philippines has already developed some of the requisite competencies. Within the industrial, manufacturing and transport cluster, we are eager to attract investments in aerospace, automotive, semiconductors and electronics. For example, our country is home to Collins...

(First of two parts) The Philippines is on a remarkable journey toward recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The GDP growth rate soared to 7.6 percent in 2022, up from 5.7 percent in 2021. However, as we enter 2023, we see a slower growth rate amid...