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Behind Doors Number 1 and 2: How to (Not) Make a Data-Driven Choice

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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What They Don’t Tell You -4

The World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index 2022 is the basis of Inconvenient Truth #8: The Philippines has the lowest score, and the lowest rank, among the ASEAN-5 as far as the Rule of Law is concerned. What is so galling is that eight years ago, in 2015, the Philippines had a score (0.53) higher than everyone else, except Malaysia (0.57). As you can see, Reader, the Duterte administration really brought down the Philippines Rule of Law score and ranking – from 0.53 to 0.47, and from 51 out of 102 to 97th out of 140. . One would have hoped that the BBM would see those scores and ranks going up, but judging from what is happening in the de Lima case and what happened in the Remulla fils case, that gleam of hope is fading. In the Philippines, the rule by law still reigns supreme.