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The quality of the Philippine telecommunication/information and communication technology (ICT) regulatory environment is significantly below what is c..

The recent controversy about rice importation is not about how much should be imported — in fact, there is no impending rice shortage—but ..

Economic managers are pushing for rice importation by the private sector to temper rising prices of the Filipino staple food. “The stand of the ..

Slapping an import tariff of 35 percent on rice imports alongside reforms in the agency mandated to stabilize both the supply and prices of the Filipi..

IT all started with a despot. In 1972  former strongman Ferdinand E. Marcos signed Presidential Decree (PD) 4, creating the National Grains Autho..

THE PHILIPPINES’ temporary use of quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice was intended to avert a dampening of rice prices, but the threat of the..

Revenues from the proposed imposition of a 35 percent tariff on rice imports upon expiration of the quantitative restriction (QR) – seen to reac..

State-run think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) is pushing to slap a 35-percent tariff on rice while providing subsidies to f..

This 2017, the Philippines' quantitative restriction (QR) on rice, which allows the government to limit the volume of rice that could be imported each..

In 2017, the special treatment in rice granted to the Philippines that allows the country to maintain its import monopoly will expire. This lifting is..

Information and communication technology (ICT) services in the country remain one of the most expensive in the Asia-Pacific Region. Worse, Internet sp..

In the past one and a half decades, the world has vastly changed economic transactions, data sharing, and the entire general way of life given the dyn..

The Philippines, with its new economic growth trajectory, requires reliable, accessible, and affordable infrastructure in information and communicatio..

As the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) seeks to promote free trade and economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, cross-border ICT-enab..

(Speech delivered at the Thomas Lloyd Cleantech Congress 2014 in Frankfurt, Germany) First of all, I congratulate the organizers of this year’s Th..