FAITH, HOPE & CHARITY
BY IKE SEÑERES
Mobilizing homeowners associations
(Continued from yesterday)
WHAT could be the justification for organizing homeowners associations? As it was supposed to be, the residents of...
FAITH, HOPE & CHARITY
BY IKE SEÑERES
THE BARANGAY is supposed to be the smallest political unit in our society. As it actually happens however, there are many villages...
FAITH, HOPE & CHARITY
BY IKE SEÑERES
THERE is a saying that “what you don’t know won’t hurt you”, but it seems that that does not apply to our...
FAITH, HOPE & CHARITY
BY IKE SEÑERES
Drilling down big data
BIG DATA that is not analyzed is like ore that is not processed into a diamond.
Collecting Big Data without...
FAITH, HOPE & CHARITY
BY IKE SEÑERES
Participatory democracy
PARTICIPATORY democracy is a new buzzword in the development circles that is fast gaining popularity.
Upon hearing it for the first time,...
FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: Building a coastal economy
BY IKE SEÑERES
COMMON sense will tell us that having one of the longest tropical coastlines in the world (we are second only to Indonesia) gives...
FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: ‘Competitive advantage in a coastal economy’
BY IKE SEÑERES
THERE is a big difference between “comparative advantage” and “competitive advantage” and I hope that our economic policy makers would understand that difference.
I...
FAITH, HOIPE & CHARITY: Agricultural modernization
BY IKE SEÑERES
IN the education sector, the perennial mantra referring to the shortage of resources is the lack of “classrooms, textbooks and teachers.”
In the agricultural...
FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: Redefining human development measures
BY IKE SEÑERES
DR. Gil Santos wrote: “To me it is understandable why the Philippines was not included in the countries listed by the United Nations...
FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: Human development contests
BY IKE SEÑERES
THE Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic devised by Pakistani economist Mahbub-ul Haq that was further improved by an international team...