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CASH FOR THE POOR

Working overtime on March 23 and 24, Congress approved an emergency powers bill giving President Duterte broad powers to raise or reallocate taxpayers’ money to fight the spread of COVID-19, the respiratory and pneumonia-like disease […]

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THE ECONOMIC COST OF LUZON’S LOCKDOWN

With a Luzon-wide lockdown, some 48 million Filipinos on the Philippines’ main island have to return to basics.  They retreated to their ultimate defense castles – their homes. It happens that the household or family […]

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NOW, A GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS

The coronavirus rages. Over the weekend, the number of victims exceeded 100,000 for the first time and the number of countries hit reached 110. The virus causes the disease called COVID-19 – coronavirus infectious disease […]