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Tag: Rudy Romero

Lackluster 4Q dampening 2021 GDP hopes

"The current quarter is not living up to the best expectations."   At the end of 2020, economists and business analysts fervently hoped that the Philippine...

COP26 must put an end to empty words

"Stop the blah blah blah, as Greta Thunberg said."   When their representatives affixed their signatures to the Climate Change Accord in Paris in 2015, the...

Welcome to the opposition, enablers

"Without criticism or rebuke, Rodrigo Duterte felt enabled."   An extensive change has taken place in the landscape of the Senate of the Philippines during the...

Philippines likely unable to cope with next pandemic

"We’re barely coping today."   A growing number of renowned epidemiologists are expressing the belief that another pandemic of COVID-19 proportions is going to hit the...

Managing the Philippine economy, 1973 to 1983

"Here are the words of the members of the Marcos economic team."   Several weeks ago, I wrote about a newly published book titled “A Dialogue:...

World Bank report on PH education: After the apology, now what?

"The Department of Education no right to feel insulted, much less to demand an apology from the World Bank."   During the entire 76-year relationship between...

The case for a single LGU organization 

"All the LGUs speaking in one voice would be something that Manila would not want to ignore."   The Supreme Court victory scored by Batangas governor...

G-7 allies fought yesterday’s world wars

"The lessons learned are there to see."   It has become traditional for the leaders of the Group of 7 (G-7) countries to pose for a...

Monetary policy must continue to support recovery

"Has the time come for the BSP to consider reversing course and shifting to a policy of gradual tightening?"   To discharge its function in an...

Department of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

"The time for correction is now."   The Constitution has nothing to say about the size and configuration of the official family of the President of...

Weak 2Q performance means low 2021 GDP growth

"Let's hope the next announcement would be a good one."   Sensing the sluggishness of economic activity during the first quarter (1Q) of this year, I...

Incentives not substitute for good investment climate

"Just do a good job of governing."   Only a few months separated the approval by President Rodrigo Duterte of CREATE (Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives...

Pork imports, sugar exports: Dar’s shifting attitude

"What contrasting demeanor."   The attitude of Secretary of William Dar and the Senate during that body’s April 12, 2021 hearing on pork-tariff reduction stands in...

Impressive-sounding names don’t always impress

"Performance speaks for itself."   A person’s name does not appear in his or her personal balance sheet, whether as an asset or a liability, but...
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