Whose brainchild is SWF?
To begin with, does our economy really have — excess foreign currency reserves, large surplus revenues, capacity to embark on foreign investment?
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Daily Tribune
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.
To begin with, does our economy really have — excess foreign currency reserves, large surplus revenues, capacity to embark on foreign investment?
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How could a lousy phraseology — “as if the President had signed” — could even gather intellectual adherents?
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Until it carries the stigma as a ‘horse-trading agency’, CA’S crucial role as an ‘accountability checker’ in a supposedly ‘merit-based’ appointment becomes…
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In the Swedish prison model, human rights are given due deference. So why call inmates as ‘persons deprived of liberty’ or the self-deprecating PDL tag?
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This isn’t America but Filipino prison mentality embraced the cruel notion of ‘an eye for an eye’ which betrays any sense of humanity in the way we run our…
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Our bureaucrats generally tend to cross boundaries in terms of function, the scope of authority, and institutional mandate.
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As basic as it goes, no government in the ‘internet -of-things’ can control crime, only the criminal.
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Six, if Senate’s acquired bias against POGOs would trigger an exodus from the likes of Cambodia, have we thought of its impact on commercial and residential…
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For over three decades, PAGCOR is the biggest revenue generator and one of the government’s staunch allies in nation-building with allocations for ‘mandated…
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