CHANGING WORLD Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas (Part 1) As an economist, part of my professional job is to fathom the future. I have been involved in economic forecasting ever since I joined the think tank called the Center for Research and Communication in 1967. Since then, year in and year out — with...
CHANGING WORLD Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas It is never too early for millennials and centennials to plan for the building of their future families. Part of this forward planning is the decision on where to locate the family home. If one studies the expansion of the Metro Manila today, it is obvious...
CHANGING WORLD Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas (Part 3) After four years of study in the US and another year in Spain helping to start a business school that would become one of the leading business schools in the world, the IESE Business School in Barcelona, I returned to the...
CHANGING WORLD Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas (Part 2) My brother Eddie was born on May 6, 1940, 15 months after my own birth. Having been born close to one another, we grew up together and experienced our childhood in close companionship. Together with our eldest brother Joe (born in 1937), we...
Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas CHANGING WORLD (Part 1) My brother, Eddie (for Edberto), passed away from a heart attack last September 7 at the Makati Medical Center. For more than five decades (since 1964), he was very active in what he called two weeks before his death on a Facebook message as “the...
CHANGING WORLD Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas (Part 1) From the beginning of mankind, the three basic necessities of human beings have always been listed as food, shelter and clothing. If we relate shelter to the real estate sector, one can assert that even in the midst of the ongoing pandemic and...
CHANGING WORLD Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas (Part 3) The misallocation of our abundant human resources as evidenced by a shortage of technical skills, such as those in construction, highlights the importance of enlightened parents’ participation in the choice of careers, occupations, or professions...
CHANGING WORLD Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas It is not true that 46 percent of Filipinos are unemployed, as reported in a major newspaper recently. The error came from an inappropriate extrapolation from a survey conducted with a small number of 1,555 respondents that was projected to the whole labor...
CHANGING WORLD (Part 1) Modesty aside, at age 81 I think I have stronger immunity against COVID-19 than many people I know in their fifties or sixties who have been smoking or drinking heavily, sleeping only six hours a day on the average, and indulging in unhealthy diets. I have good genes...
CHANGING WORLD The COVID-19 pandemic will have a long-lasting negative impact on employment opportunities for Filipino workers, especially among the youth. Not only hundreds of thousands (estimated to be at least half a million) Overseas Filipinos Workers are returning home but the unemployment...
CHANGING WORLD (Part 2) The Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) might have significantly limited our physical mobility. We were forced to isolate ourselves in our homes together with our loved ones. Thanks to all the advances in digital technology, however, we were able to connect with our...
