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Logo of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), representing the "alab ng haraya" (flame of the imagination).

Jacob disputes NCCA claims on her removal as Exec. Director

On December 15, 2011 By

Malou Jacob disputed the explanation of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts regarding her removal from office.

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Tilting at Windmills

On December 15, 2011 By

Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, “Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have wished. Do you see over yonder, [...]

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The Business of Corruption

On December 13, 2011 By

Many talk about the culture of corruption. It has been called a cancer that eats away at the fabric of society by the religious and the secular alike. I have likened it to the multi-headed hydra in Greek mythology, irrepressible.

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Occupied

On October 18, 2011 By

Restoring a meritocratic society is the goal of the 99 movement in America. Establishing it for once in the Philippines should be our national ambition.

The Nobel winning economist, Gary Becker, whose work on human capital I deeply admire wrote a piece called Deserving and Undeserving [...]

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Indonesia Rising, Philippines Waning

On October 10, 2011 By

What could be the reason for their divergent paths?

The September update of the Asian Development Bank’s Asian Development Outlook 2011 painted a contrast between the two most liberal ASEAN democracies Indonesia and the Philippines. Based on these countries’ first half performance, the Bank [...]

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Where’s the beef? On the missing “spoils” from P-Noy’s second US trip

On September 26, 2011 By

Does good governance mean good economics?

In an earlier piece last week meant more to mark the 39th anniversary of martial law in the Philippines, I tried to downplay expectations regarding the “spoils” that P-Noy’s US trip would bring describing the situation [...]

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Doing Family Planning in a Pluralist World

On September 12, 2011 By

Sometimes, the discourse surrounding the reproductive health debate in the Philippines sounds more like it was lifted out of the Middle Ages.

Case in point was the exchange recently held in the Senate between Sen Juan Ponce Enrile and both Pia Cayetano and Miriam [...]

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Is the Good Governance path a dead end?

On June 7, 2011 By

Is the “markets plus good governance” formula indeed the enlightened way to economic Nirvana that its adherents say it is?

Warning: I am following Paul Krugman’s tradition of labeling some of my posts ‘a bit wonkish’. Some of the succeeding material might be a bit taxing, but [...]

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BFFs, NO! Developmental State, YES!

On June 6, 2011 By

For all its talk of good governance and economic reform, PNoy’s government seems to be struggling at both. It needs a circuit breaker to change its current trajectory.

Last week, two surprise announcements were made. Well perhaps one was a surprise, the other was to be expected, [...]

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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: Or why De Quiros is a bit of a crank

On May 31, 2011 By

In his two most recent op-ed pieces published successively in the Inquirer between Monday and Tuesday this week, Conrado De Quiros proves why his writing should be taken with a grain of salt.

Apologist

In Repetitions, Mr De Quiros talks of parallels between the two [...]

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