FAITH, HOPE & CHARITY
BY IKE SEĆERES
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 SEĆERES
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 IKEĀ SEĆERES
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: āCompetitive advantage in a coastal economyā
BY IKEĀ SEĆERES
THERE is a big difference between ācomparative advantageā and ācompetitive advantageā and I hope that our economic policy makers would understand that difference.
I...
FAITH, HOIPE & CHARITY: Agricultural modernization
BY IKEĀ SEĆERES
IN the education sector, the perennial mantra referring to the shortage of resources is the lack of āclassrooms, textbooks and teachers.ā
In the agricultural...
FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: Redefining human development measures
BY IKEĀ SEĆERES
DR. Gil Santos wrote: āTo 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 IKEĀ SEĆERES
THE Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic devised by Pakistani economist Mahbub-ul Haq that was further improved by an international team...
FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: Moving forward with the family farms idea
BY IKE SEĆERES
ACTUALLY, the family farms idea is not entirely new.
Family farms have existed in the Philippines for a long time now, including the...
FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: Family farms
BY IKEĀ SEĆERES
FAMILIES and farms have been around for centuries, but it seems that it is only in recent times that āfamily farmsā as legal...
FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY: Eden in the city
BY IKE SEĆERES
ITāS an old story that I still remember.
Many years ago, the people of Taiwan planted every parcel of vacant land in their...