Food quality and affordability
FOOD security should not only mean
quantity, but should also mean quality and affordability.
These three conditions should always
be present as if it is a...
Organizing the supply chain of water
I DO NOT know who the bright boys are who
figured out how to organize the supply chain of electricity, but it’s brilliant
and its working...
Water security
EXISTING national laws require each
and every barangay to build their own water catchment systems, a requirement
that could simply be interpreted to mean a lagoon....
Science and technology
FORMER Technology Resource Center (TRC)
director general Ms. Chitang Nakpil has defined “technology” in a way that
everybody could easily understand. She said “technology is a...
Increasing prosperity and reducing poverty
I AGREE with the goal of some
international organizations to “reduce poverty and share prosperity”, except
that I think we should make it a goal to...
Good governance’s two sides
IT SEEMS that we are the only country
in the world that deploys too many cleaners and traffic enforcers in our
streets. I am not totally...
Battle plans versus safety nets
GLOBALIZATION is not yet over and as far
as I know, more of it is yet to come.
The World Trade Organization (WTO)
drives globalization, now...
Databases for development
I HAVE built many databases for the
government either as a manager or director. Sad to say, most of these databases
have not been sustained for...
Lessons for all reasons
PERHAPS it will never happen, but how I wish good government
programs will be spared from being abolished when new administrations take over
from old administrations.
One...
Democratic capitalism
COMMUNISM has one big advantage over
capitalism and that is the fact that communism is both a political and an
economic ideology.
Capitalism, on the other hand,...