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Time to revamp the party-list system

Bills that should defend labor or small farmers can be outmaneuvered by interests that stand to profit. This is not ...
For many Filipinos, 2025 has proven to be one of the most memorable and consequential years in modern Philippine history — mostly in a bad way. The arrest and incarceration of former President Rodrigo ...
When Economic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan and economist Hal Hill published their book “The Philippine Economy: ...
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Rebuilding the Republic with civic engineers

Filipinos are furious. The flood-control scandal has exposed a national disgrace: a web of ghost projects, shadow contractors ...
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Philippines: ‘Weak state, strong factions’

Oxford—”Jaime Lannister is my favorite character ... he is such a misunderstood guy,” I blurted out as soon as positioned myself next to George R. R. Martin for a formal picture following his ...
CoSP11 is a critical moment to renew commitments under UNCAC. Transparency International calls for action on political ...
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Managing through risk and chaos

EVERYONE’S raving mad about the level of corruption that’s compromising our national security, destroying the ecology, ...
The revival of Philippine capital markets will require more than a new float regime. But without it, revival would not come at all.
Street-level bureaucrats directly shape citizens’ perceptions of the state. But their performance remains uneven due to limited resources, patronage politics, and outdated systems ...
There is one book from which I have learned the most practical advice for navigating almost any situation. Its lessons on strategy, preparation, conflict management, and competitive behavior reach far ...
Japan's recent actions speak for themselves. It has deployed medium-range surface-to-air missiles on an island just 110 kilometers east of China's Taiwan island, and is considering the export of a ...
The writer argues: "Yet, like development models, protest movements are not portable. Conditions that make them plausible or even necessary in one society may be absent in another. Their value is ...