A Look at the Clunker that is the Philippine DRRM Environment. A wise man once shared with me the observation that if everything that Filipinos have written about anything actually happened, we would have been a developed country a long… Read More »Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction Management (DRRM)
Context, industry structure overview and characteristics of successful hubs Urong-sulong: a telenovela of many parts This paper was originally going to be about looking into the feasibility of setting up an air transportation and logistics hub adjacent to or in… Read More »An Introduction to Air Transportation and Logistics Hubs (Part 1)
A look at changes in consumer spending behavior. Highlights:The post-pandemic period has shown evidence of changes in consumer spending behaviorConsumer spending has recovered reaching P16.7 trillion in 2022, 17.1% above the 2019 figureThe numbers show evidence validating two themes –… Read More »What are Filipinos Spending On: The Pandemic Effect
Inflation is a critical variable impacting decision-making and policy direction. For the most part, decision-makers are only able to appreciate the headline inflation number. This may ignore significant developments which underlie this headline number. There are two analytical frameworks which… Read More »Inflation: September 2023: The Province of Iloilo relative to the Philippines
A deeper look at the New Year power catastrophe Anyare? A happens. B caused A to happen. C is the solution to fix B so that A does not happen again. D needs to be done to get to C.… Read More »Blackout Part 2: An Unacceptable Event in Need of Answers
As the first batch of students who have gone through the entirety of the K-12 program are about to graduate, it is worrying to note that 4 of the 10 who started that journey will not be able to graduate… Read More »The K-12 Experiment