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CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.” – George Bernard Shaw The periodic announcement by the Bangko Sentral of the rate of inflation is generally meaningless to the ordinary man in the street. What he knows is that prices are...

CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” –  Giuseppe di Lampadusa The solution to every problem it seems is to create a task force and leave it at that. With vaccines at hand to tame the raging coronavirus pandemic, and...

CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “Government, geography and growth: the true drivers of economic development.” – Jeffrey Sachs What is so surprising about Vietnam overtaking the Philippines in economic development? Haven’t Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia done the same,...