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Not Taylor-made
by Boo Chanco - March 18, 2024 - 12:00am
Can’t figure out why my friend, Cong. Joey Salceda made an international embarrassment of himself by criticizing Singapore for monopolizing the Taylor Swift concert in Southeast Asia.
Adding value
by Boo Chanco - March 15, 2024 - 12:00am
What we need are strategic thinkers on top of our policy formulation and program execution. What we have are bureaucrats, technocrats and politicians with very myopic views. We need leaders who can DREAM BIG for...
Exporting our people
by Boo Chanco - March 13, 2024 - 12:00am
Exporting people has become a major industry for low- and middle-income countries. According to the World Bank, the amount of money sent home by migrant workers surged to an expected $794 billion in 2022.
Make public schools local
by Boo Chanco - March 11, 2024 - 12:00am
It is obvious that we need more than the million plus DepEd bureaucracy to fast track the resurrection of our international reputation badly tarnished by results of recent international tests placing our children...
Walang ambisyon?
by Boo Chanco - March 8, 2024 - 12:00am
A discussion in a Viber group populated by many economists focused on the role of development in reducing poverty.
Good housekeeping
by Boo Chanco - March 6, 2024 - 12:00am
“Baka naman yung surot, daga at ipis sa NAIA ay gusto lang umalis ng Pilipinas sa hirap ng buhay at naghihintay ng masasakyan.”
A matter of confidence
by Boo Chanco - March 4, 2024 - 12:00am
We have been talking about attracting foreign direct investments for the longest time. It is used to justify BBM’s globe-trotting.
Pogi Points
by Boo Chanco - March 1, 2024 - 12:00am
You would think that a presumably mature democracy like the United States with over 200 years’ experience in the art of governance would have a Congress that puts primacy on the national interest.
Working together
by Boo Chanco - February 28, 2024 - 12:00am
The bidding for the right to rehabilitate and manage NAIA had been furiously contested. Up to the last moment, there were attempts to undermine the awarding to frontrunner San Miguel.
Trophy bridges
by Boo Chanco - February 26, 2024 - 12:00am
Our leaders have a penchant for showcase projects whose economic justification, given our limited resources, can be questioned. We surely need a lot of bridges to connect our archipelago.
It’s complicated
by Boo Chanco - February 23, 2024 - 12:00am
Times are hard and it is obvious that workers need to earn more to survive. A Filipino family of five needs at least P13,797 a month or P460 a day to meet their basic needs, according to the Philippine Statistics...
Quietly delivering
by Boo Chanco - February 21, 2024 - 12:00am
When Transportation Secretary Jimmy Bautista was still president of Philippine Airlines, I had a long conversation with him about the need to expand and upgrade the facilities at NAIA.
Giving up on our tomorrow
by Boo Chanco - February 19, 2024 - 12:00am
There’s that little girl tapping on your car window trying to sell you a string of sampaguitas.
Worse than we thought
by Boo Chanco - February 16, 2024 - 12:00am
Our crisis in education is apparently worse than we thought.
The outlier is winning again?
by Boo Chanco - February 14, 2024 - 12:00am
An outlier in street language is one who is not one of the boys. One outlier is Ramon S. Ang, long considered outside of the exclusive club of the business elite.
REIN in inflation!
by Boo Chanco - February 12, 2024 - 12:00am
It didn’t take long for Finance Secretary Ralph Recto to take full command of the economic cluster as he assumed responsibility for keeping inflation numbers low. And Ralph even coined an acronym: REIN or Reduce...
How LGUs shoo away investors
by Boo Chanco - February 9, 2024 - 12:00am
While discussing how Charter change can attract investors, my Viber group colleagues wondered if problems with LGU corruption are a bigger turnoff to investors than Constitutional restrictions on foreign investments....
Why attract foreign investors?
by Boo Chanco - February 7, 2024 - 12:00am
Do we really need to revise our Constitution to attract foreign investors? It will help. We have provisions in our current Constitution that deliver the message that foreign investors are not welcome.
Should we just break up?
by Boo Chanco - February 5, 2024 - 12:00am
Not content with the breakup of the Duterte-Marcos alliance, Rodrigo Duterte also wants Mindanao to break up from the republic.
Cash flow problems
by Boo Chanco - February 2, 2024 - 12:00am
The good news last week was the inauguration and commercial energization of the P52-billion Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project.
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