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THE administration`s continued inaction on some pressing problems of the country will result in more school drop outs. Kabataan Rep. Raymond Palatin..
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The United Nations has met two of its eight development goals, well ahead of the 2015 deadline. Six goals are left. The first goal, to halve the numb..
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DISBURSEMENTS OF foreign aid rose last year, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said, even as it noted a drop in total foreign len..
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The PIDS study titled “Rationalizing National Government Subsidies for State Universities and Colleges” authored by Senior Fellow Rosario G. Manas..
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Angara noted a recent study from the Philippine Institute for Development Studies showing that the country stands to gain more economic benefit from ..
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Thousands of urban slum dwellers including these in the Ulingan community in the Philippines capital of Manila (map) live amid filth and swirls of to..
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A fiscal decentralization strategy to help empower local-level governments towards boosting economic activity and reducing poverty levels in their res..
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Philippine decentralization had a good start in the `90s with the approval of the Local Government Code in 1991. But fiscal decentralization has suffe..
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IT has been a decade since the Electric Power Industry Reform Act was signed, but the promise of lower rates has yet to be seen. The Philippines is re..
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EXPERTS are urging the government to release the list of the best- and worst-performing local government units (LGUs) every year to encourage local go..
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It has been twenty years since the late President Corazon Aquino made good on her promise to the Filipino people that she will empower local authoriti..
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Sen. Edgardo J. Angara has reiterated his strong support to the continuing bilateral partnership of the Philippines with Japan through the Japan-Phili..
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The government must release the list of the best- and worst-performing local government units (LGUs) each year in order to encourage reforms in fisca..
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The Aquino administration will begin to feel the pinch of insufficient revenues as early as next year given its failure to legislate new tax measur..
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Around the world, growth patterns and sources of competitiveness are changing dramatically with emerging economies becoming key players as the United ..
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