Posted on March 14, 2016 10:49:00 PM Holidays are anti-poor M. A. P. Insights Rolando T. Dy This country has just too many holidays for its level of development. There are national holidays (public, religious, and cultural) and local holidays (provincial, city, and towns). I counted 17 official national holidays declared in 2015, excluding regional
MAPPING THE FUTURE Memo to presidential aspirants on mass poverty By: Rolando T. Dy – @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 02:31 AM March 14, 2016 WOULD you want to leave behind an enduring legacy? Would you want to be remembered as one of the best Presidents ever? So many Presidents have tried, but failed. Go
MAPPING THE FUTURE A new Western Visayas region, what’s next? By: Rolando T. Dy – @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 03:01 AM February 29, 2016 IN 2015, a new Western Visayas Region was born, after the old region was partitioned. Its largest province, Negros Occidental, became part of the new Negros Region, which now includes
MAPPING THE FUTURE A government for the people? By: Rolando T. Dy – @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 12:38 AM February 22, 2016 IT WAS Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865), 16th US president, who declared a: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” Another revolutionary, Mao Zeedong (1873-1976),
MAPPING THE FUTURE What is so special about the Davao region? By: Rolando T. Dy – @inquirerdotnet 12:02 AM February 15, 2016 THIS ARTICLE is about the rise of Davao as a regional economy. It has nothing to do with the current political campaign. (Disclosure: I am a Dabawenyo and proud to be part of
MAPPING THE FUTURE SC’s Bt talong ruling’s economic implications By: Rolando T. Dy – @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 12:10 AM February 08, 2016 IN the past few weeks, a lot has been written about the recent ruling of the Supreme Court (SC) banning Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) talong (eggplant), a genetically modified product like Bt
MAPPING THE FUTURE Subsistence farmers: What now? By: Rolando T. Dy – @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 10:49 PM December 13, 2015 RECENTLY, I was seated beside a noted economist, Emmanuel de Dios, in a competitiveness workshop by the Management Association of the Philippines. He asked me: What is the percentage of subsistence farmers in
Opinion Posted on November 16, 2015 08:30:00 PM Climate will dominate Black Swan events 8 3 Google +0 0 M.A.P. Insights Rolando T. Dy Black Swan is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise and has a major effect. The theory was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a Lebanese-American hedge fund manager, derivatives trader
Opinion Posted on November 09, 2015 09:05:00 PM Trans-Pacific Partnership: What it means for Philippine agribusiness 0 0 Google +0 1 M.A.P. Insights Rolando T. Dy The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is termed a landmark agreement in global trade relations. The TPP binds 12 countries: the United States, Canada, Chile, Mexico and Peru in the Americas; Brunei, Japan, Malaysia,
Opinion Posted on October 19, 2015 09:34:00 PM Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the challenge to the next three presidents 0 0 Google +0 0 M.A.P. Insights Roland T. Dy The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a sequel to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), will guide efforts to reduce poverty and improve well-being up to 2030. There are 17