PHOTOS AND TEXT BY ENGR. GRACE NICOLAS | What are cooperatives and how do they help local economies? In Barangay Imok, Calauan, Laguna, Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Provincial Officer Glenn Quidayan speaks on how cooperatives provide income.
MGG gives Aquino administration grade of 4.69
Experts from the Movement for Good Governance (MGG) have given President Aquino a grade of 4.69 for his first year in office, a rating based standards or metrics that the President himself set for his administration at the beginning of his term.
The Importance of Being Empiricist
“Right now we are growing at about two million per year, so those ten years means an additional 20 million, and on the assumption that our poverty incidence is at 26%, that translates to additional 5.2 million poor individuals.”
Absent sina Tatay
Hindi na bago ang mga ganitong usapin subalit ang mas malalim na pag-unawa sa sitwasyong ito ang siyang magiging susi para maunawaan naman ang mga perspektibo ng mga kabataang silang unang nakakaramdam ng ‘pagkawala’ ng magulang.
Kabuhayan showcase para sa mga OFW
Ayon sa Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, halos 10% ng GDP ng Pilipinas nung 2010 ay nagmumula sa OFW remittances na umabot ng $18.76 billion. Ayon sa President’s Budget Message for 2010, “contagion effects of global recession can affect OFW remittances and export receipts that can slow down domestic consumption which, combined with lower investment flows, can reduce GDP growth.”
The First National Congress of OFWs and Families, a Success!
PRESS RELEASE, Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration, June 9, 2011
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