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		<title>Notes on the economic and social impact of Ondoy and Pepeng</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The twin devastation brought by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng hit the Philippines at a time when the country is still reeling from the impact of the global financial and economic crisis. According to the latest (as of Oct 16) consolidated report of the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), the total cost of damage from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arnoldpadilla.wordpress.com&blog=2418548&post=452&subd=arnoldpadilla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drowned by Ondoy, drowned by debt</title>
		<link>http://arnoldpadilla.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/drowned-by-ondoy-drowned-by-debt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arnoldpadilla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malacañang admitted Thursday (Oct 1) that government’s calamity fund of ₱1 billion is in danger of being depleted. Thus, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives held an emergency meeting with some Cabinet officials and agreed to pass a ₱10-billion supplemental budget in the wake of Ondoy’s onslaught in Metro Manila and adjacent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arnoldpadilla.wordpress.com&blog=2418548&post=429&subd=arnoldpadilla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on the text tax</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arnoldpadilla</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[revenues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[also published in Bulatlat.com
As expected, the revived proposal to impose a tax on text messaging is again controversial and widely opposed. What surprised some people perhaps are the strong statements from telecommunication companies (telcos). They called the plan “anti-poor”, “oppressive” and “one of the worst anti-consumer legislations ever made”.
Telcos, of course, are still reeling from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arnoldpadilla.wordpress.com&blog=2418548&post=394&subd=arnoldpadilla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inflation lowest in 22 years: Juan &amp; Juana ask, &#8220;E ano ngayon?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://arnoldpadilla.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/inflation-lowest-in-22-years-juan-and-juana-ask-%e2%80%9ce-ano-ngayon%e2%80%9d-the-national-statistics-office-nso-today-reported-that-inflation-in-august-further-slowed-down-to-0-1-from-july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arnoldpadilla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Statistics Office (NSO) today reported that inflation in August further slowed down to 0.1% from July’s 0.2%, the lowest in 22 years.
Inflation shows the rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services is rising.
What does the 22-year low inflation mean for Juan and Juana? Does it mean that ordinary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arnoldpadilla.wordpress.com&blog=2418548&post=378&subd=arnoldpadilla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SONA 2009 notes: almost 4 M jobless a year (and it&#8217;s also understated)</title>
		<link>http://arnoldpadilla.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/sona-2009-notes-almost-4-m-jobless-a-year-and-its-also-understated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arnoldpadilla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In her first SONA (2001), Mrs. Arroyo declared that her economic philosophy is that “the way to fight poverty is to create jobs, not destroy them”. She even made a concrete promise to create one million new jobs in agriculture and fisheries in one year alone.
In her 2002 SONA, Mrs. Arroyo said that her working [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arnoldpadilla.wordpress.com&blog=2418548&post=316&subd=arnoldpadilla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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