Moral ascendancy … ugh!
By Raul J. Palabrica Jr.The self-righteous senators have fallen from their pedestal.
The self-righteous senators have fallen from their pedestal.
Of late, we have been blessed by more than a few positive news concerning our economy and society. There has been a transformation, from being the Sad Sack in East Asia to being the object of praise, without sarcasm, from the MD of the IMF. We should celebrate the gains we have made. We thank [...]
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has issued guidelines on how members of a banks’ board of directors should behave and what their qualifications should be.
The state-run Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. on Thursday reiterated its commitment to undertake its Entertainment City project under the most rigid guidelines and the most exacting standards amid renewed scrutiny from the international investor community.
One of the country’s largest business groups credited the administration’s efforts to promote good governance for inspiring confidence among local and foreign investors, helping shield the economy from the adverse effects of the crises in various parts of the world.
It is not enough to just eliminate corruption if we want to make poverty history. It is also necessary to do something positive such as increase competence. In addition, where there are know-it-all officials who refuse to listen to the private sector and thus contradict P-Noy’s directive of “Ikaw ang boss ko,” poverty will remain.
For the Philippines to achieve inclusive growth, it must build on the foundations of “people power” through government reforms, civil society participation and social safety nets, World Bank Group president Robert B. Zoellick said in a statement. “The People Power revolution of 1986 opened an opportunity,” said Zoellick, who arrived in the Philippines on Tuesday. [...]
Sharing the Herculean responsibility of pushing for good governance and reforms is a task not too many people are eager to take. For the ordinary Filipino, the grueling tasks and the cudgels expected to be borne from supporting such advocacies should be shouldered by huge private firms and multinationals, which have the resources that can [...]
The head of the World Bank Group praised President Benigno Aquino III, who has promised to curb corruption under his term, for placing transparency and good governance at the forefront of the Philippine government’s agenda. Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, indicated the belief of the multilateral institution in the significance of Aquino’s agenda [...]
On July 4 this year, the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) came out with its Statement of the Week titled “A Privately Run Tourism Promotion Board: An Idea whose Time Has Come.” In this position paper, MAP noted that we are laggards in the region in tourist arrivals, despite the many things we have [...]
It’s the one book that ought to have many more volumes to follow it up. For a country where tales of corruption abound, a movement for clean governance has put together stories of what remains “the exception” in the nation’s political scene: good news in governance.
The hot news these days is that somebody cheated a great deal in the 2004 national elections, at least according Sen. Panfilo Lacson, who is a former fugitive. The proud-to-be-Filipino guys down here in my barangay, however, can hardly call the senator’s exposé as timely. Still, all our eyes are on the Commission on Elections. [...]
