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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Hard times could begin next month
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Everyone should pay attention to the warnings made by UP Economics
Professor Ernesto Pernia, the former chief economist of the Asian
Development Bank and its expert in human-development economics, that
the looming US recession, which has begun to cause a slowdown
throughout the world, will hit the Philippines hard. Harder than the
1997 Asian crisis did.
Some economists, however, still believe the
situation is not as bad as Pernia paints it.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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BIG
DEAL
By Dan Mariano
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Who is to blame for
high rice prices?
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Rice prices have increased by nearly 50 percent, the highest jump in
34 years—but who is to blame for this troubling development?
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Let’s resurrect our
basic industries
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One of the sad things that have happened to our country is the death
of our basic industries. These were allowed to expire like the
sunset.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Angara, Pia and
Migz: They also serve who are not on TV
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Politicians love to be in the public eye, and there is no more
efficient way to be so than through television. Of course,
politicians love it more if the TV exposure is for free.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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The 2008 graduates
and global migration
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FROM his desk at the World Bank headquarters five years ago, Dilip
Ratha started crunching numbers in search of accurate mathematical
equivalents to the output of migrant workers.
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CHOPSUEY
By Edong Mata
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Procrastination awards
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The next big photo op from Malacañang will show leading bishops and
priests in a big “unity march” with President Arroyo on the
Palace grounds.
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Many Iraqi women say life
was better under Saddam
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BAGHDAD: Iraqi women say they are now worse off
than they were during the rule of dictator Saddam Hussein and that
their plight has deteriorated year by year since the US-led invasion
in March 2003.
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