[T]he PDP target is for AFF exports to annually by 6.4%. Under PBBM, not only did they not increase by that 6.4% a year, the value of real exports actually contracted by a dismaying 12.5%.
Menu Home Articles Media Reader, Join Me DOOR NUMBER 1 OR DOOR NUMBER 2? How to (Not) Make Data-Driven Choices November 13-19, 2023 Reader, let’s do a mental exercise. Put yourself in place of a head-hunter, or a Human Resource expert, or, let’s be honest, PBBM. You are tasked with looking for the most …
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From the data, one would have to conclude that the imposing price ceilings on rice were a complete failure. Yet to hear it from the President himself, EO 39 was a success. But what evidence do they have to support this conclusion? Let us see.
Did EO 39 succeed in keeping the prices of rice within the caps it had set? Here are the hard data, as provided by the PSA: Instead of prices going down and staying at the levels of the price ceilings, they did the opposite: they increased substantially over the period during which the caps were in place.
Menu Home Articles Media Reader, Join Me Focus: The Philippine National Police Efforts to Cure the PNP Oct. 2-8, 2023 There is recent news of a Senate Bill (SB 2449) authored by Senator Bato de la Rosa and three others (Revilla, Ejercito and Zubiri), seeking to introduce “organizational reforms” to the Philippine National Police (PNP). …
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Menu Home Articles Media Reader, Join Me The PNP, Through the Eyes of the PNP SubTitle September 18-24, 2023 “For CY 2022, the manpower complement of PNP totaled 230,284 composed of 15,883 Police Commissioned Officers, 216, 989 Police Non-Commissioned Officers, 1,083 cadets and 12,212 Non-Uniformed Personnel.” — Executive Summary of the COA’s 2022 Audit …
You see, Reader, there is no such thing as “the price of rice in the world market”, as quoted above….PLUS, the latest FAO Rice Price Update came out on Sept. 8, one day after the Romualdez press release. It shows that the August rice price indices were higher compared to those in July, and even higher compared to August 2022:
And do you know, Reader, that in August. 2018, the average retail price of rice was P44.66. Yes. The price of rice 5 years ago was higher than the price of rice now, which has alarmed our government so much that they are calling for a price ceiling.