Two of Iloilo’s business executives were guests in an episode of IMT Conversations: Lea Lara of the Iloilo Business Club (IBC) and Francis Gentoral of the Iloilo Local Economic Development Foundation (ILED).
Read MoreThe Dept. of Trade and Industry have declared a nationwide freeze on prices of basic commodities last March, slightly ahead of the declaration of a nationwide Enhanced Community Quarantine because of the novel coronavirus.
Read MoreNeo-liberal economist Ernesto Pernia has resigned from his post as socio-economic planning secretary of the Duterte administration because of manifested differences in economic philosophy between him and other members of the cabinet who formed the Inter-Agency Task Force for Covid-19 crisis.
Read MoreInclusion is such a lonely word. It used to be a buzzword in government and in the development sector, but it abruptly became archaic. Covid-19 summoned back social segregation as a method of defining subsidy distribution.
Read MoreWhile the COVID-19 trajectory is approaching the tipping point; the economy is moving on an opposite direction – diving down deeper to rock bottom in just 1.5 months. It is only now that I appreciated the usefulness of graphical curves. Yet I cannot show it here.
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