Fighting poverty in the micro level
BECAUSE poverty is a problem that has
always been with humankind, even during the biblical times, I used to think
that it is impossible to eradicate.
I...
Development index
THE Human Development Index (HDI) is a
summary composite index that measures a country's average achievements in three
basic aspects of human development: health, knowledge, and...
Revival of the career bureaucracy
THERE IS an
existing pool of career professionals. There is a deep bench of deserving
potential appointees who are not simply qualified, they have been officially
certified...
Sustainable communities, 1
THE UNITED National Integrated
Development Alliance (UNIDA) has consolidated four statistical methods into one
development framework, now to be known as the UNIDA framework.
The most fundamental...
Our natural heritage
IT IS THROUGH the power of words that
we could describe concepts that the mind could not fathom otherwise.
It was a pleasant surprise for...
Telecoms for emergency communications, 2
WITHIN the scope of the Management
Information Systems (MIS), it would be practical to require at least one data
recovery (DR) site or more if the...
Telecoms for emergency communications, 1
(Remarks
at the 911 Commission meeting in Microtel at Wyndham in UP Diliman Campus, Oct.
14, 2019.)
IT HAS BEEN said that “content is
king”, “connectivity is queen”,...
Endo versus Dividendo, 4
AS I RECALL, the oppressive practice
of “contractualization” was invented by the big business owners who wanted to
avoid paying for the long term benefits of...
Endo versus Dividendo, 3
WHEN customers buy from the big
stores, they get nothing except some discounts that are few and far between and
some miniscule points from the “loyalty...
Endo versus Dividendo, 2
THE ONLY
difference between the contractual employees and the owners of the big stores
is that the latter has access to capital.
The only
difference between the...