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                    [Title] => OFWs
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The impact of remittances by Filipinos living or working abroad, even if such inflows have been threatened or challenged in recent months, still cannot be discounted in helping chart the country’s sustained growth in the next five to 10 years.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-13 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1535757 [Title] => A meaningful life [Summary] =>

Twelve paragraphs from the Pope this year to mark our celebration of Christmas – let’s read (it will take max of a half hour) and pass it on. They represent the essential virtues that we should cultivate to lead meaningful lives as human beings who believe in good, who live their lives in God’s likeness.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-23 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1520877 [Title] => Better PESO, but more jobs needed [Summary] =>

While amendments to the Public Employment Service Office (PESO) law are expected to further institutionalize job-matching services in all local governments, and therefore ease the country’s joblessness profile, the reality remains there are still fewer jobs being created compared to the number of new job seekers turning up.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-11 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1520122 [Title] => Much ado about the wrong things [Summary] =>

When the World Bank reported the Philippines dropped by six notches in global ranking to 103rd place compared to 97th last year in terms of ease of doing business, there was much ado about the method used, or to be more specific, the changes in the way the report was prepared.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-09 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1515117 [Title] => Desperate measures: ACEF’S last stand [Summary] =>

For nearly two decades, the Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund has masqueraded as a rescue boat for Philippine agriculture in the face of the Asean economic integration move next year.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-26 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1513351 [Title] => Finding relevance in taxation [Summary] =>

Lowering income taxes – both personal and corporate – would always draw a cheer from the obvious beneficiaries; and the antagonists of this move – obviously, the government’s executive branch – would balk at any intention to reduce tax collections.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-21 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1489975 [Title] => Is Metro Manila traffic headache unsolvable? [Summary] =>

Vehicle coding is dead meat – not at all useful these days when you look at the traffic situation that Metro Manila has to contend with even before the sun rises and way past the midnight hour on many occasions.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-19 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1482351 [Title] => Shaking off quake fears [Summary] =>

Disaster preparedness has become a big phrase for Filipinos, not just because of the reality of super typhoons and extreme floods, but also because of the threat of earthquakes with the Philippines located within the Pacific Ring of Fire where 90 percent of the world’s earthquakes occur.

[DatePublished] => 2015-07-29 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1439990 [Title] => Tips to make the remainder of Lent more meaningful [Summary] =>

Here are a few tips that I came across, expanded with a few of my personal thoughts, and adapted to local conditions.

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Much like a plant starved of adequate amounts of water, Philippine agriculture is showing signs of withering, and if no attention is immediately given at this point in time, it will surely stop growing and just die.

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