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Continue Reading →Don’t we know that all that matters for reducing poverty is growth, especially after China? And therefore we development economists should focus on the things that make growth happen: Macro policy and creating the right institutional environment. And not bother with the micro evidence…
No, no, and, as the expression goes, no. Every step in [...]
Continue Reading →Biodiversity, environmental sustainability, and slowing down climate change are all public goods. In fact, amidst climate change, these are all global public goods. In order to provide public goods, government intervention is inescapable. And it goes without saying that green taxation is one of the principal tools for collective action, be this at the national level or the supra-national level.
Continue Reading →Instagram Co-Founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger challenge many of the myths surrounding startups and the lives of entrepreneurs. Both former Mayfield Fellows with the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Systrom and Krieger share their first-hand experiences of the entrepreneurial process
Continue Reading →TxVia has defined the fast-growing prepaid card segment in the emerging payments space, and is well-known for its end-to-end financial technology services. Recently, TxVia Philippines opened its Manila office, and expanded its operations to serve as hub for its call center operations, payments processing, risk management, and fraud detection as well as software development.
Continue Reading →The Left’s and Diokno’s proposal are different but both have the same objective of giving relief to consumers. While the Diokno proposal is perhaps better than the Left’s, it nevertheless results in foregone revenues.
Continue Reading →A common mistake of those against tobacco tax reforms is the application of elementary math on the impact of reduced consumption on revenues. That reduced tobacco consumption will generate revenue losses for the government is a hasty conclusion and ignores the empirical fact that demand for cigarettes is inelastic.
Continue Reading →The parliament of the streets which saw its culmination in the Philippines at EDSA-1 on February 1986 took root shortly thereafter in places like South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and even Burma. Were it not for the tanks on Tiananmen, it would have triumphed in China back in 1989. It has spread even to Eastern [...]
Continue Reading →Talk to the pundits and commentators and hear their lamentations over the sluggish fourth quarter GDP growth figures of last year. Talk to the investment analysts and you hear a very different story.
Having used up much column space last year predicting an inevitable slowdown of the growth rate, and seeing it materialize, I find [...]
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- The Straight Path Needs to Turn a Corner
The Straight Path Needs to Turn a Corner
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and…
- Identity Matters
Identity Matters
How the principle of "shared destiny" shapes the way voters behave.
In the West, identity politics is often equated with minority interests. Barack Obama in 2008 won the presidential contest by…
