A Radical's Nut

  • Notes on Philippine economy and politics
  • Economy, Oil deregulation, Privatization

    “Red October” Day 1: What’s destabilizing the Duterte regime?

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    Arnold Padilla

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    October 1, 2018
    “Red October” Day 1: What’s destabilizing the Duterte regime?

    As it hunts for “Red October”, the Duterte administration should look at itself instead. Apparently, its own economic policies – together with its repressive schemes – are the ones destabilizing and isolating the regime.

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  • Labor & employment

    Richest Filipinos and ‘Endo’ kings are Duterte’s friends

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    Arnold Padilla

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    September 6, 2018
    Richest Filipinos and ‘Endo’ kings are Duterte’s friends

    With the biggest employers of contractual workers like Henry Sy and Ramon Ang as Duterte’s biggest backers, Duterte’s failure to fulfill his promise of ending endo should not come as a surprise.

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  • Consumer issues, Economy, SONA 2018

    SONA 2018: How much have prices increased in Duterte’s first two years?

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    Arnold Padilla

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    July 19, 2018
    SONA 2018: How much have prices increased in Duterte’s first two years?

    Prices today are rising five times faster than they were before President Duterte took over.

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  • Charter change, Free trade, SONA 2018

    SONA 2018: Cha-cha, US free trade deal, and all-out economic liberalization under Duterte

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    Arnold Padilla

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    July 16, 2018
    SONA 2018: Cha-cha, US free trade deal, and all-out economic liberalization under Duterte

    Charter change for greater liberalization of the economy and a bilateral free trade deal attest to the leading role that the US continues to play in shaping Philippine economic direction even amid the rise of China.

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  • Economy, Labor & employment

    Minimum wage is only 13 to 27% of NEDA’s cost of decent living

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    Arnold Padilla

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    June 8, 2018
    Minimum wage is only 13 to 27% of NEDA’s cost of decent living

    Under fire for its Php10,000-gaffe, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) is now saying, through Secretary Ernesto Pernia, that the cost of decent living for an ordinary family is Php42,000. This admission by the country’s chief economist on the amount required by a Filipino household to afford a decent…

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