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Monday, March 31, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Dangerous reversals
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THE reversal in the
Philippines’ external trade to a deficit in the first month this
year from a surplus last year underscores the country’s
susceptibility to global commodity price swings at a very bad time
for the domestic economy.
Last January, the country
incurred a trade deficit, as it paid more for imports than it earned
from the sale of goods abroad. Rising imports historically has been
a sign of an expanding economy, as the country buys from abroad the
bulk of materials it processes into goods meant for both the local
and export markets.
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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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System of rice
intensification
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MOST people know Robert “Obet” Verzola as a
University of the Philippines engineer who pioneered information
technology in this country in the 1970s.
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Nursing review centers get CHED ultimatum
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JUST when you thought that the controversies that
mercilessly (and well deservedly) hounded review centers in the wake
of the shocking cheating saga of the nursing examinations of a few
short years back...
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Industrialization
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Actually, I had a heavy heart writing that column.
Some of the economists responsible for our economic policy since the
late 60s to the present are close friends of mine.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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The rice
crisis—aren’t we forgetting the farmers?
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SENATORS and congressmen have been expressing their
concern over the spiraling price of rice, now at its highest in the
last 34 years. They are all championing the cause of consumers,...
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DOUBLE
TAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Cultural
genocide
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TIBETANS profess near-universal devotion to the Dalai
Lama, their exiled spiritual leader, whom the communist Chinese
government has long vilified as separatist.
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