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The halo effect is a cognitive bias first studied by Edward Thorndike in 1920 whereby the perception of one trait (i.e. a characteristic of a person or object) is influenced by the perception of another trait (or several traits) of that person or object. An example would be judging a good-looking person [...]
Continue Reading →Join the Blog Action Day on June 8 to Save our Coral Reefs and Seas!
Our beautiful and diverse marine resources and wealth need your attention and your help. They are under attack.
Exploitative foreign firms, in tandem with local partners and left unchecked by irresponsible [...]
Continue Reading →It is a continuing expression of the financial market’s faith in the story of poor countries catching up with richer ones propelled by economically liberal policies.
Continue Reading →PNoy’s ally in the Senate, Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, lists down yesterday, December 19, his 12 wishes for President Benigno Aquino III and for the country. First on Sen. Kiko’s list is for the peace talks in Mindanao to start, followed by a hope for a new image in the Philippine tourism industry. As what was expected, the most talked about wish among the 12 is the Senator’s 4th wish; “A girlfriend for PNoy.” Below is Sen. Kiko Pangilinan’s complete wish list this coming Christmas. Care to share yours?
Continue Reading →After unveiling his strategy for unblocking investments in public infrastructure, the policy statement of PNoy was drawing flak from all sides. The statement concerned his proposed method for mitigating regulatory risk which was to compensate private investors for any losses caused by legal or congressional [...]
Continue Reading →As population grows, less rice is produced
BY AMADO P. MACASAET
Malaya
In the past 20 years from 1990 to the first six months of the current year, the Philippines imported $8.232 billion worth of rice, equivalent to P362.208 billion.
This is equivalent to 21 [...]
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I think the Philippines should take a closer look at neighboring Thailand. They used to have a 3.3% growth rate, much worse than our 2% growth annually. Mechai Viravaidya, or Mr. Condom of Thailand, shares in this TEDxChange video how Thailand was [...]
Continue Reading →Asean lists down causes of failure to meet MDGs
Written by Estrella Torres
Business Mirror
LINGERING conflicts, fragile political situations and armed violence in Southeast Asia hamper the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) among the members of the Association of Southeast Asian [...]
Continue Reading →Infrastructure woes hinder MDGs
Written by Cai U. Ordinario
Business Mirror
DESPITE the country’s efforts to increase social spending through programs like the conditional cash-transfer (CCT) program to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) believes that addressing infrastructure constraints [...]
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- There's too much fun in the Philippines
There’s too much fun in the Philippines
A certain pizza place we shall now disguise behind the name Norwich Pizza had been acquired by a large food conglomerate we shall call Bumblebee Food Corporation for purposes of…
- Pseudo-trial
Pseudo-trial
What happens when social media takesover the justice system?
As per the Julian Assange case in Britain where the WikiLeaks founder may find out about his fate through the social networking…
- The Thai experience
The Thai experience (or why P-Noy …
The Philippines it seems is engulfed in all things Hollywood at the moment. With the filming of the Bourne Legacy taking place in Manila filling the nightly news with human…
