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Rudy Romero

What the 20th Congress’ Senate might look like

This year’s Senate election is particularly important because of the scheduled post-election impeachment trial of Vice-President Sara Duterte. How is the Senate of the incoming...

USAID: Soft power in 21st Century geopolitics

Hard power bespeaks intimidation, destruction and subjugation; soft power bespeaks cooperation, assistance and development. The decision of President Donald Trump’s second administration to dismantle the...

Thank you, au revoir, USAID

Has USAID left the Philippines for good? I don’t think so. I think USAID absence from this country is temporary. USAID will be back. Donald...

Trump administration: Mercantilism in, globalization out

John Maynard Keynes of the United Kingdom, Henry Morgenthau of the U.S. and the other top Allied officials who gathered in the small New...

Stakeholder capitalism, inflation and worker incomes

Oxfam reported that over the past two years nearly 800 million workers around the world saw their wages fail to keep up with inflation,...

Million-a-year housing target not being met

Two of the most important promises made by Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the course of the 2022 presidential campaign related to two most basic...

Maharlika Highway’s Quezon segment in bad shape

In a magnificent gesture of generosity, the government of Japan in the late 1960s offered to build in this country a highway that would...

Making regional development councils effective

Thus far, RDCs have been operating largely on the basis of the goodness of the regional politicians’ hearts. That has to change. In a country...
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