Month: December 2020
A threat greater than COVID-19
December 28, 2020by Orlando Oxales originally published in The Manila Standard “Let’s do our part while we still can.” On top of the health and economic disaster of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 has become a year of natural calamities that hit all regions of the country. Published reports place estimates of some nine million of our population were […]
The importance of middle-power states
December 21, 2020by Orlando Oxales originally published in The Manila Standard “The government must take a pro-active posture in alliance with its formidable network of like-minded states.” China was again criticized by the US military last week for snubbing the senior-level meetings connected to the Military Maritime Consultative Agreement on maritime safety. This is yet another confrontational rhetoric between […]
Digitalization is indispensable to recovery
December 14, 2020by Orlando Oxales originally published in The Manila Standard Just four months after the eight-agency Joint Memorandum Circular cut bureaucratic red tape for telecommunications towers, the Anti-Red Tape Authority reported that 9,373 permits have been given to three telecommunications players. After being plagued with a long and expensive gauntlet of national and local government permits, it took […]
Economic recovery via a digitized landscape
December 12, 2020As COVID-19 continues, consumers and businesses have turned to the accelerated trend of digital transformation in financial services to ensure business continuity and meet their day-to-day financial needs. As such, there is an even greater need to build Philippine digital infrastructure. In a recent virtual town hall discussion of Stratbase ADR Institute entitled “Secure and Reliable Cloud Banking […]
Crises and corruption
December 7, 2020by Orlando Oxales published in The Manila Standard “We must demand transparency and accountability.” Before the weekend, news broke out that the country’s government debt has reached P10.03 trillion and based on data from the Department of Budget Management is anticipated to hit a mind-blowing P10.16 trillion before the new year. The Department of Finance assures […]