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  • Economy, Governance

    How People Economics can solve the transport crisis

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    Arnold Padilla

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    October 20, 2019

    ✅ Develop the countryside, to ease the heavy congestion in urban centers like Metro Manila with the creation of longterm economic opportunities in the regions ✅ Build Filipino industries, to supply the needs of building and maintaining the country’s transport infrastructure as well as the needs of transport rehabilitation and…

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  • Consumer issues, Governance, infrastructure

    LRT-2’s decline amid funds misuse and dubious deals

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    Arnold Padilla

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    October 15, 2019

    Presidential mouthpiece Salvador Panelo called the challenge to commute. The dare arose from his callous remark about the state of the metro’s transport system. There’s no crisis he said, since people are still able to go wherever they need to. Enduring the daily torment of long queues and endless waits,…

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  • Governance, Human rights, Military & war

    Rising national insecurity amid Duterte’s soaring security budget

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    Arnold Padilla

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    September 21, 2019

      With Martial Law in Mindanao, a brutal drug war and an even more vicious counterinsurgency campaign, the Duterte regime vowed to make the country peaceful and safe. However, as once again highlighted by the recent twin bombings in Mindanao, it appears that instead of peace and quiet, the Duterte…

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  • Consumer issues, Oil deregulation

    Amid Saudi attacks, no need for oil price hikes

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    Arnold Padilla

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    September 17, 2019

    Amid a looming oil crisis precipitated by the attacks on Saudi Arabian plants that effectively shut down 6% of global oil supply, oil companies in the Philippines can still afford not to raise prices. This is because they have overpriced domestic petroleum products to the tune of Php4.38 per liter…

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  • 2019 elections, Governance

    22 dahilan bakit dapat iboto si Neri Colmenares sa Senado

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    Arnold Padilla

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    May 10, 2019

    22. Para sa mga manggagawa, gaya ng wage hike at pagwawakas sa endo 21. Para sa mga magsasaka, gaya ng tunay na reporma sa lupa 20. Para sa senior citizens, gaya ng pagtaas ng SSS pension 19. Para sa mga kabataan, gaya ng sapat na badyet para sa edukasyon 18.…

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