PCG’s problematic dualism
Something explains this duality, but it may require assessment as to whether it must continue to have this dual character.
Primer Pagunuran · · 3 min read
Primer Pagunuran currently drafts his dissertation proposal on infrastructural policy via public private partnership for his Doctor of Public Administration. With a master’s in public policy at UP Diliman, he used to be the chief of staff of key legislators of the House of Representatives. At the Center for Integrative and Development Studies, he is part of the research team that begun seminal work on Philippine federalism. He has written in local and foreign journals and presented papers in international conferences. In between, he plays tennis, loves to travel, fends for birds, a dog and cat lover, a marksman, a widower.
Something explains this duality, but it may require assessment as to whether it must continue to have this dual character.
Primer Pagunuran · · 3 min read
Wherever the future migration pattern might lead, there’s always the other side of the ledger.
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Another observation is the common tendency of presidents to downplay, dismiss, and debunk survey findings and consequently dither over what to do with societal…
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The Australian government has just opened ‘windows of opportunity’ to anyone chasing the so-called ‘Australian dream’ — to study, live or work there.
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The portion who got its news via social media was about equal to the portion who got its news from newspapers and that was in 2017.
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Every budget cycle has become a ‘hiding place’ for public funds that only trained eyes can declassify as ‘significant others,’ for lack of a better term.
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What was quite strange was that RSBS was allowed to use the contributions of AFP personnel to generate investment revenues that were tax-exempt.
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So when would one save the pond where water lilies double in size each day, choking all other forms of life living underneath?
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It’s high time to establish a mechanism that any executive judge could supervise – operationalizing the ‘writ of kalayaan.’
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No president should have allowed the camel’s nose to enter the national government’s budgetary tent.
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