The global boundaries of international trade and tourism have long been broken with the signing of several commerce agreements among nations and the increased pace of travel nowadays. These two sectors have become the linchpin for many economies, especially those in Asia and other developing regions. It is, thus, vital…
THE unlikely awards-season juggernaut Everything Everywhere All at Once marched on at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, and even gathered stream with awards not just for best ensemble, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan but also for Jamie Lee Curtis. The SAG Awards, often an Oscar preview, threw…
With the advancement in transportation, logistics and communications, geographical barriers are no longer a concern in international trade and cross-border transactions even in an archipelagic state like the Philippines. What is probably challenging on the part of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is how to efficiently track these international…
ART in its manifold principles and practices proves prevalent, if not fully integrated, in the world of science. Such was the message communicated by the University of the Philippines-Diliman College of Science (UPD-CS) as it took part in the month-long celebration of National Arts Month this February. The UPD-CS mounted…
Conclusion AS to the fiscal gaps or deficits of the government, the solutions advanced are standard neo-liberal: tax goods, adopt VAT, expand VAT, and yes, borrow, borrow, borrow. Borrow from domestic sources and borrow from external loan givers. With neo-liberalism in economic policy very much in place, the debt negotiators…