^To resolve the credit for small entrepreneurs/start-up cash problem, I was thinking of the Grameen Bank example pioneered by 2006 Nobel Prize winner for economics Dr. Mohammed Yunus in Bangladesh. This is credit on the "tingi" system.

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I agree with some of blacklight and Palahubug’s points, however I’d like to add that:

One way of waking the creative talent in the Philippines is the sponsoring of “sustainable” entrepreneur contests, the award should be a cash prize for capital investment, on condition of a joint-venture between the winner & the government, promising revenue for the government & participants which can fund another entrepreneurial contest, & increase employment in the country.

You all must admit that the country has a lot of talent, all that is needed is a little funding to startup, and close monitoring & guidance to achieve revenue & sustainability.

Entrepreneur contests spark innovation and provide a practice run for start-ups.

An example is Idea 2 Product international business-plan competition at the University of Texas at Austin which offers to fund $USD 10,000 capital investment and the 'World Cup' of business-plan competitions.

The contests give the entrepreneur teams a practice trial by fire to pitch proposals to venture capitalists. They also encourage and steer the best innovations towards start-up companies.

Competitions can tap a new source of ideas. At the same time, more students and researchers can participate, to develop their business ideas and pick up key contacts in the venture-funding world.

This is the way to waken the untapped potential of the Filipino, and get everybody focused on the important issue at hand --- sustainable progress.

 

Cang-ipos:

There are basically two types of Filipinos who'll say that the Philippines is hopeless. The first are those who are simply clueless on how to uplift their lives. They are the ones who like to blame the government or other people for their miseries and failures. Sadly, they are also the most vulnerable sector in our society and are usually used by corrupt politicians. The second type are those who actually know that there are indeed opportunities in this country but just want to keep those for themselves. They are those who wants the poor to remain poor coz they know that a lot of money can be made by using the poor. It is very disturbing to see them preaching on TV how hopeless this country has become and how life was much better then than today. Was life much better then for the likes of Binay and Satur Ocampo than today. Even some media personalities who earn six figure salaries now are also guilty of spreading this hopelessness among our people. My country is not hopeless coz I am not.

  BRAVO TO YOU !  cang-ipos....

          VERY WELL SAID !

             COMM'ON TELL THEM, TELL THEM ...YOU GOT IT RIGHT !

palahubug99:

The middle class in our country is gone. They are now OFWs somewhere else supporting their families left behind or trying to get them out of the country to join them overseas. So who is left behind? Only the very poor and the very wealthy. Is there hope? Most definitely yes. We face many problems such as a terrible peace and order situation with rebel groups or wannabe rebels like the NPA, JI and ASG running rampant in the countryside, widespread and systemic corruption in our government, an education system that's falling apart, etc. We can't have an economy dependent on OFW dollar remittances since this enterprise model is not sustainable and a recipe for eventual disaster.

The only way we can have hope for the future is to encourage our middle class (our OFWs) to return by offering them comparable salaries here so they can help us rebuild our country and, incidentally, mitigate the social dislocation that's happening now with a generation of children growing up without parents to guide and nurture them...

This is what I was talking about in the previous post:

Drop-outs among OFW children on the rise

11/8/2007

By LOUI GALICIA

ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau

ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau

A growing number of children left behind in the Philippines by overseas Filipino workers are losing interest in education and many are dropping out of school.

This was revealed by Tina Monzon-Palma, program director of ABS-CBN Foundation’s Bantay Bata 163, during her recent visit to the Netherlands to meet with a group of Pinoy professionals and nurses and Ambassador Romeo Arguelles. She said Bantay Bata has been receiving a lot of cases of children being heavily affected by the physical separation from parents working abroad.

"So nagkakaroon na kami ng iba’t ibang klaseng programa sa iba’t ibang probinsya para matugunan namin itong mga pangyayaring ito na sa palagay namin sa mga panahon na ito ay lumalaki at sana ay hindi na lumalala para hindi na lalong magkawatak- watak ang pamilyang Pilipino," Palma said in an exclusive interview at the ambassador's home in Wassenaar.

Palma said that a study conducted on how remittances are spent show that priorities among parents working abroad are healthcare, education and personal needs.

Some children, however, don’t feel the need to go to school anymore because of the the money pouring in every month from abroad.

" 'Yung isang researcher na nagpunta sa isang lugar, nakita na mataas ang rate ng drop-out dun sa mga merong mga magulang na nasa abroad. Marangya, marami silang pera so parang di sila natuturuan. They don’t [feel the] need to go to school. The money is just forever being there," Palma said.

Palma said that Bantay Bata is trying to develop a special program to train these children on how to properly communicate with their parents.

"We put them into a training session of the children and the lolas and the auntie. How do you communicate with your mother or father in using the telephone or using the SMS. How do you strengthen that even in the absence, in the physical absence hoping it will fill the vacuum," Palma explained.

Palma said there seems to be a template of dialogue between a parent abroad and a child in the Philippines which is, "I need money," and that must be changed.

She said that Bantay Bata tries to tell the children that money isn’t everything in life.

They try to train the children to properly express their feelings about the absence of their parents and they also try to teach them how to save money, she said.

Palma reminded the Pinoy professionals that it’s not all about the money but the love.

The problem, she said, stems from lack of physical love and children whose parents are working abroad often feel the neglect and emotional emptiness.

Palma said that there are different languages of love and that parents who are working abroad are encouraged to use them in order to provide a security blanket for their children.

"Ang nakikita namin ay isang bukas at totoong pakikipag-usap sa mga anak. Ipaalam sa kanila na minamahal nila ang kanilang mga anak...Ito ay isang uri ng pagmamahal," Palma said.

Children, on the other hand, are also encouraged to tell their parents over the telephone or text message that they love them.

"Maski sila ay magkahiwalay ay maari pa silang magpakita ng pagmamahal at respeto sa isa’t isa sa tuloy na pakikipag-usap. Hindi lamang yung pag-uusap nila sa telepeno o pagtetext o pagsulat ay ukol sa pangangailangan nila na salapi para sila ay makabili ng panggimik nila, pagtustos ng kanilang pag-aaral kundi para na rin malaman nila ang halaga ng pera at ang halaga ng hirap na pinagdadaanan ng magulang para sila ay mamuhay ng matiwasay," Palma said.

Palma said that parents working abroad who have the habit of making up for their physical absence from home by bombarding their children with material things are using the wrong expression of love.

The OFWs should instead begin to teach their children how to save those hard-earned money at a very young age.

And most important of all, children and parents, just like any normal household should continue communicating with each other.

A Pinay who brought her Dutch husband and brother-in-law to the meeting said that it is very typical of a Filipino to help his fellow countryman.

"It’s really very Filipino! It’s really very Filipino and I am very happy for that. Maybe in my own little way, I can help also, in little things for Bantay Bata," Vicky de Bree-Ocampo said.

"They really make sure that these children are put in a nice place to help them and also to educate their parent and this is a very good example that ABS-CBN is doing now," de Bree-Ocampo added.

Arguelles, meanwhile, only had kind words for Bantay Bata.

"Bantay Bata is one of the more very successful programs, NGO program in the Philippines. And we’re very proud to have assisted in our small way the Bantay Bata project here in the Netherlands," Arguelles said.

"I think what is very useful here is for Tina to have informed the Filipinos here about the situation of the Filipinos back home in terms of those families that have their parents or relatives abroad and how Bantay Bata is able to assist these families in trying to unify and trying to solve some of the problems that are attendant to the absence of parents from their children," Arguelles said.

Arguelles was thankful that he opened his home to that very informative meeting which touched the hearts of the Pinoys because it gave them a glimpse of what is a reality, that money cannot buy, in the world of the OFWs.

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epillora:

I have seen the bright future of this country in the next ten years. It started its economic reborn from setting its own frontier as the bottom line of the race. For one, is the trust of the domestic investors to the nation's ability to sustain the growth and even face the greater economic challenges despite of the political concerns, as evidenced by establishment of the Asia's largest mall 'Mall of Asia" that boosts tourism and gave a new inspiration of reviving and reconstructing the manila bay area. Secondly, the supersonic growth rate of the ICT and BPO industry in the country, is the indication of a stronger potential market. We all know that creeping economic growth of the country is due to weak demand (due to scarcity of employment, low income), and low productivity is just an aftermath of the foregoing mentioned.  Lastly is the potential of the philippines to be one of the world's most significant player in gaming and tourism. The proposal of the entertainment city is a big leap soon to be for the entire nation, which I believe also a way of setting up an edge and distiction from the rest of the world. 

Philippine economy is yet to reach it's peak.  One indication is the notable unemployed sector, which is the potential production force.  Meaning, fufture develepment can be well sustained by this domestic manpower reserved alone that pays a controllable, compensable and worthy labor price.

But there are some key areas that must be improved such as transportation, communication, energy, and advertising. We need news paper to reach the countryside, we need efficient cellular and radiowaves to reach the countryside, we need  to totaly energize the contryside, and we need to draw people closer the from the contryside, make the world smaller and accessible.

 

 

 

 

ganito rin pananaw ko , dahil marunong tayo mag-english laki nag potential natin even yun mga kausap kong kano sa net , gusto nila mag-invest d2 because of quality ng manpower natin pagdating sa IT .. nakakalungkot kaya bumabagal pag-unlad ng PINAS is dahil sa CORRUPTION... kelan kayo tayo magiging totoong maunlad... na di na kailangan magcommercial ang GOVT na sinasabing maunlad tayo 

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MOVING ON 1 STEP FORWARD AND 2 STEPS  BACKWARD.ANG BABAW NAMAN NG PANUNTUNAN MO SA BUHAY KAUNLARAN. JUST BECAUSE FILIPINOS CAN SPEAK ENGLISH WE HAVE A GREAT POTENTIAL TO BECOME ONE OF ECONOMIC GIANT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LAYO NAMAN NG SAPANTAHA MO.ANG HAPON LALO NA NAG KANILANGH MGA LAW MAKERS LAHAT SILA MAALAM MAG ENGLISH PERO KAPAG NAGSASALITA SA INTERNATIONAL FORUM MAY KASAMANG INTERPRETER AY IKINOKORRECT PA NIYA KAPAG MALI ANG PAGKAKA INTERPRET NG INTERPRETER.PERO DI HAMAK NA MAUNLAD SILA KAYSA SA ATIN.SILA MAY SARILENG PAGAWAAN NG KOTSE ,BARKO TREN MGA ROBOT MGA HIGH TECH LAHAT. EH TAYO ANO KAYA NATING GAWIN NA BIBILHIN NG INTERNATIONAL MARKET EH ANG GAGALING NATING MAG INGLISH LALO NA MGA LAW MAKERS NATN ABA NUMBER ONE SA KATALINUHAN.PERO MAY NAGAWA BA SILANG BATAS PARA BAWASAN ANG KURAPSYON MAY NAIPAKULONG BA? SA JAPAN MABALITAAN LANG NA MAY ANOMALYA ANG AGENCY RESIGN KA AGAD ANG IBA NAGPAPAKAMATAY HARAKIRI EH DITO NASA MUKHA NA ANG NINAKAW MAMATAY  SA KATATANGI DI NAMAN MAIPAKULONG WALA NAMAN NAKUKULONG KAYA TULOY ANG LIGAYA.SIGE MAGNAKAW NA LANG KAYO NG MAGNAKAW. BAKA KASI PAG DULING NA SA GUTOM MGA PINOY EH MAG AALSA NA ULI SANA REBULUSYON NA ANG KASUNOD PARA START FROM UMPISA ULI.

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Nice ideas.  However, you're ideas are so full of consumerism.  Mall of Asia?  ICT & BPO?  Gaming?  These types of economic drivers are fleeting and largely dependent on external influences.  The minute the global outlook takes a nosedive, a consumer economy will be the first to go down.  I say that we need to put all our efforts to developing our agriculture and manufacturing and technology sectors instead.  Our reliance on imported equipment is very evident when you look at a business' investment dollars: a large fraction is spent on equipment.  Imagine if the Philippines is instead a major equipment manufacturer and exporter, like Taiwan?  What if we can make our own pumps, motors and engines?  This way we become the primary user of our own metal resources, and engineers too, not some other country.  What if we become a major exporter of rice and corn and other agri products in Asia?  This way we are the producers, not the consumers.  I'm not saying that we pull out all support on consumer products, but the way I see it, as evidenced by the country's GNP, consumerism takes a large piece of the pie, which is not good in the long run.

In order for the economy to truly move on, the government also has to do its part in putting up the necessary infrastructure for business growth.  We need those farm-to-market roads, and like what you said, the energization of the whole countryside.   We need  airports and seaports.  We need effective agricultural subsidies to help the farmer, because there is no denying the fact start up cash is a major problem of farmers. 

 The government needs to resolve the MILF and MNLF debacles first before business can flourish in Mindanao.  I believe that prosperity follows peace, and therefore all efforts must be spent in securing a peaceful Mindanao.  A  progressive Mindanao will ease off the pressure that Luzon experiences and therefore results to a better economic outlook for all.

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Hello Blacklight:  You are on target on all counts!!  Namely:  "put all our efforts to developing our agriculture and manufacturing and technology sectors instead;"  The goal is, ....to become as "the producers, not the consumers."  That ..."consumerism takes a large piece of the pie, which is not good in the long run," which is of course, true, since many things that Filipinos think they needed have to be imported since the country does not produce them. 

And you are correct in stating that the government has to do its part in putting up the necessary infrastructure for business growth."  And you identified which of these infrastructures are needed, namely: 

         farm-to-market roads,  

         airports and seaports. 

       effective agricultural subsidies to help the farmer, because there is no denying the fact start up cash is a major problem of farmers.

        resolution of the MILF and MNLF debacles...

 

My question now is:  Can the politicians stop doling out precious pesos to their croonies and ka-partido, which I have been reading in the newspapers, happening.  Instead, dole out these monies to our smart and promising engineers and technology graduates to finance a what will become like the "silicon valley" in our country?  Give them venture capitals to try out their engineering know how in producing kiln, molds, and factories to produce world-quality steel products, plastic-ceramic products, and make ALL THE MACHINERIES, CONVEYORS, and  ROBOTS to help the Filipinos set up their manufacturing facilities to produce competitive products like tools, machineries, shoes, sport gadgets, toys, simple doll makers, to craft makers, to home decor makers, and anything out of their creative minds, designs that can compete in the productions of latest technology gadgets.  Provide incentives for Filipinos who are retiring from their quality engineering posts abroad and bring home their know how to our local venture capitalists. All of these needs money.  Where will the money come from if a retired army general will wrap around his waste bundles of dollars to snick out of the country like Garcia?  Where will the money come from if corrupt presidents are signing Juan de la Cruz's future with debts and  onerous contracts and deals with foreign governments?  Where will the money come from when politicians are paying themselves high salaries with perks and porks that are eating up the little revenue the tax collectors are collecting from the little people because the biggies have all the tax loopholes their paid accountants are looking for them? 

When Filipinos go out of the country, they are successful.  Why not give the remaining ones the opportunity to succeed in their own country by channeling the peoples' money from the kurakots' political chicaneries to providing venture capitals to our emerging graduates of engineering, marketeers, mba's, scientists, so that they do not go away to serve other countries?  Why do they need to bring in Australians, Indians, Chinese, Taiwanese, Koreans, Americans to run the country's energy and industrial enterprises?  MGA MASIADO NA BANG HUNGHANG ANG MGA PILIPINO SA PILIPINAS? 

 

 

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Cang-ipos:

There are basically two types of Filipinos who'll say that the Philippines is hopeless. The first are those who are simply clueless on how to uplift their lives. They are the ones who like to blame the government or other people for their miseries and failures. Sadly, they are also the most vulnerable sector in our society and are usually used by corrupt politicians. The second type are those who actually know that there are indeed opportunities in this country but just want to keep those for themselves. They are those who wants the poor to remain poor coz they know that a lot of money can be made by using the poor. It is very disturbing to see them preaching on TV how hopeless this country has become and how life was much better then than today. Was life much better then for the likes of Binay and Satur Ocampo than today. Even some media personalities who earn six figure salaries now are also guilty of spreading this hopelessness among our people. My country is not hopeless coz I am not.

                  VERY WELL SAID, Cang-ipos

                   I agree, when you mentioned those "kababayans" who only seek to blame the government and not themselves or ourselves as a people. We need to

         accept the truth that "WE"  must also blame ourselves, and our " MASAMANG UGALI"

JAYJAY101:

Cang-ipos:

There are basically two types of Filipinos who'll say that the Philippines is hopeless. The first are those who are simply clueless on how to uplift their lives. They are the ones who like to blame the government or other people for their miseries and failures. Sadly, they are also the most vulnerable sector in our society and are usually used by corrupt politicians. The second type are those who actually know that there are indeed opportunities in this country but just want to keep those for themselves. They are those who wants the poor to remain poor coz they know that a lot of money can be made by using the poor. It is very disturbing to see them preaching on TV how hopeless this country has become and how life was much better then than today. Was life much better then for the likes of Binay and Satur Ocampo than today. Even some media personalities who earn six figure salaries now are also guilty of spreading this hopelessness among our people. My country is not hopeless coz I am not.

                  VERY WELL SAID, Cang-ipos

                   I agree, when you mentioned those "kababayans" who only seek to blame the government and not themselves or ourselves as a people. We need to

         accept the truth that "WE"  must also blame ourselves, and our " MASAMANG UGALI"

It's nice to play the "blame game" but exactly how does that help us? How do you whack an entire country upside the head and expect them to change their attitudes overnight? The people are DEMORALIZED because everybody they vote into office turns out to be a KAWATAN or a MAGNANAKAW so, in a democracy, what can you do but keep on recycling the same brand of scoundrels over and over? Isn't that how Einstein defined stupidity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? What is needed is a military takeover to appoint HONEST people into office (not "elect" into office but APPOINT because the masses will never vote a non-artista into office and also because they have never heard of Prof. Randy David, Pampanga Gov. Ed Panlilio nor former finance minister Cesar E.A. Virata) and protect them once they are in office from left-wing and right-wing subversives and counter-revolutionaries. Who ever said idealism is dead? I call upon all Filipino patriots to rise up and overthrow the yoke of mediocrity and corruption!!!

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You are right Cang Ipos. everytime I turn on th enews all I see are senators, generals, congressmen, goverment officials and high ranking who's who in our goverment saying how hard life is there in our country. Some politicians would even go to depreesed areas of our country console the people there and even join them with their meals.  And then as soon as they go back to congress they pass bills that would furthermore squeez the life out of these people. They are the ones always arguing calling for change because they say life is too hard these days in our country......WHAT ! aint most of these idiots live a life like a rock star.  Have you guys ever seen a senator or goverment officials celebrating his/her birthday at an exclusive subdivision where they lived ? They have food to feed the whole poor population in the asia region. Then they go on T.V. asking for change ? what the F*#@ ! are these people serious?  If they really care for these poor listen to what the lord Jesus Christ told the rich man who was asking him how he can go to heaven, Christ replied: "Go and sell all your belongings and give it to the poor and follow me."

I bet none of our good intentioned leaders could put their money where their mouths are? 

 

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Life is like a dogsled team, View never changes if you aint the led dog.

palahubug99:

The middle class in our country is gone. They are now OFWs somewhere else supporting their families left behind or trying to get them out of the country to join them overseas. So who is left behind? Only the very poor and the very wealthy. Is there hope? Most definitely yes. We face many problems such as a terrible peace and order situation with rebel groups or wannabe rebels like the NPA, JI and ASG running rampant in the countryside, widespread and systemic corruption in our government, an education system that's falling apart, etc. We can't have an economy dependent on OFW dollar remittances since this enterprise model is not sustainable and a recipe for eventual disaster.

The only way we can have hope for the future is to encourage our middle class (our OFWs) to return by offering them comparable salaries here so they can help us rebuild our country and, incidentally, mitigate the social dislocation that's happening now with a generation of children growing up without parents to guide and nurture them. Here are my suggestions:

1) Amend protectionist laws in our constitution that emphasize "Filipino first" in business practices. I am referring to articles 12 & 16. These obsolete and antiquated provisions have spawned monopolies (no doubt benefiting the 100 or so ruling families) that are unresponsive to Filipino consumers due to the lack of competition (for instance in insurance, shipping, banking, utilities, rice and corn production) and foster an anti-business atmosphere in our country.

2) Create financial incentives and tax breaks for foreign and local businesses who want to invest in our country by building factories and heavy industries that create jobs for ordinary Filipinos - jobs that are long-term, well-paid and provide good medical/dental benefits.

3) Exterminate the NPA, JI, ASG and other wannabe rebel/bandit groups once and for all, build infrastructure (roads, airports and seaports) in former rebel-controlled areas to encourage businesses to relocate to the countryside. This eliminates the groups that collect revolutionary taxes from our businessmen.

4) An important step is to minimize or eliminate corruption in our government agencies that issue permits to businesses to make it easier and faster for them without need to resort to bribes. How can we accomplish this? By having a local ombudsman in every government office that deals with the public who has the power to investigate complaints made against government employees and prosecute them. First offense merits suspension while second and subsequent ones merits removal from service or criminal prosecution.

5) Finally, we come to education. We really need to improve our schools curriculum to produce workers that local employers need and can hire. It would be necessary for businesses and DECS to work together to come up with specific changes to our school system and more funding for different tailor-made vocational programs.

We need to do away with the "every man for himself" attitude because we all have to work together to accomplish these positive goals. If we can work together, I believe a glimmer of genuine hope is possible on the horizon. On the other hand, doing nothing about the very real problems that challenge us means we are clinging to a false and empty hope.

If you have any comments and constructive suggestions, please feel free to share.

Good thoughts...you have covered almost all there is to do if we must progress as many of us hope we do.  But we are in denial if we fail to consider the more than 75% Filipinos who cannot make both ends meet in their struggle to survive.  Unless we ourselves, we, not the Chinese, not the Japanese, not the Koreans or the foreign investors....invest in our own country in enterprises that will employ and give our own fellow Filipinos jobs....forget it!  WE ARE JUST DREAMING, HALLUCINATING OR FANTASIZING.  It is easier to build paupahan.  It is easier and without sweat to magpautang with interest that will strangle the poor to become poorer.  It is easier to magpatanim, as absent landowners....and just live on the ani ng palay, or kahati ng kanilang manang ani.  It is easier to dream to just become an employee, rather than to become the employer to hire others.  And I just realize, it is also easier to magpa-alila, because they don't have to think any harder than do the bare necessities of cooking, cleaning, laundering.  All the thinking and shouldering of responsibilities will be handled by the employers.  FILIPINOS have got to change the way they think of themselves and the way they look at money.  Kahit na mahirap...kung ang pera sa kanila ay hindi para gastahin lamang kungdi para mapalake,...then they will think differently, not as mendicant beggars waiting for alms, but as managers, enterprenuers, and capitalists to make profit. They would want to have money as a tool, not as a means to consume.   

 When Ford invented Model T car...it was trully out of his drive to invent, at first, not to make money.  But the drive to produce, to compete, to invent...also drove him to think of ways his inventions can be used by many and thus be more successful than his competitors.  HE INVENTED DIVISION OF LABORS, parts of cars are produced by different sectors of his factory, and a conveyor was invented.  THE ULTIMATE MARK OF HIS BEING A GENUIS...in order to satisfy his inventive spirit (in products and the processes that go with the production of his invention)...HE STARTED TO RAISE THE SALARY OF HIS WORKERS....UNLIKE WHAT OTHERS WOULD USUALLY DO....why?  SO THAT HIS OWN WORKERS CAN AFFORD TO BUY THE CARS THEY ARE PRODUCING.  Thus...the working, middle class Americans started to grow and develop in America. 

 The factories that followed...did the same.  The laborers become the consumers themselves, not just the rich and the elites who can afford to pay the more expensive versions of their products. And because they live in a truly democratic country, the workers practice their rights to form and organize labor union that would seek to raise their salaries as their company make more money or profit.   The higher the salaries of the workers become, the more numbers of them become consumers who will buy the goods that are being produced in the factories that followed: companies that produce refrigerators, television, radio, stove, washing machines, sewing machines, ready made clothes, shoes, home care products, beauty and health care products, prepared foods, etc. 

be well Palahubog!! Salamat sa isinulat mo.

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Here is a cut and paste from the 2007 Global Competencies Report on Philippine business competitiveness:

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=bongAustero_nov26_2007

 

Strengthening Our Competitiveness

By Bong Austero

Let me cut to the chase and declare an embarrassing fact: Based on the 2007 Global Competencies Report released recently by the World Economic Forum, the Philippines ranked 71st out of 131 countries in terms of overall competitiveness.

We ranked lower than Vietnam (68th), Indonesia (54th), Thailand (28th), Malaysia (21st), India (48th) and even Sri Lanka (70th). We’re practically kulelat [last in the pack]. Singapore and Japan made it to the top 10 slots (ranked seventh and eighth, respectively). South Korea was 11th while Hong Kong was 12th in the rankings. China was ranked 34th.

The report, published annually, is considered the most reliable index of the global economic development race. At its bare essence, it is a scorecard of how a country measures up to the rest of the world in terms of being a desirable destination for investments. The index covers 11 factors, called pillars, which include a wide range of components: from macroeconomic and policy stability, to corruption, to labor market efficiency, to judiciary independence, even HIV/AIDS prevalence.

The report is probably one of the most widely anticipated indexes around. Many governments use it as benchmark for choosing priorities. Foreign investors use it as tool for deciding where to pour their investments. Think tanks use it as framework for all sorts of analytical and intellectual swashbuckling. The authors of the 2007 report include renowned guru Michael Porter of Harvard, the same guy who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking management theories.

Using data from the report, Time Magazine, in its Nov. 26 issue, compared the performances of selected countries in a cover story entitled “Best Countries for Business.” The coverage is particularly noteworthy in our case because of what it doesn’t say about our country’s competitiveness. The Philippines did not merit any special mention.

There has been relatively very little media coverage on the report locally. I can understand why government has not gone to town with the country’s overall competitiveness. It’s not just because being kulelat is nothing to crow about. It’s also because the data about the country painfully highlight how government inefficiency has pulled down the country’s overall ranking.

For example, among the factors that proved extremely problematic were corruption in government (the factor which scored highest), inadequate supply of infrastructure, policy instability, inefficient government bureaucracy, and yes, government instability. Out of 131 countries surveyed, the Philippines ranked 116th in terms of perceived diversion of public funds, and even lower (119th) in terms of public trust of politicians. Even independence of the judiciary ranked low (85th).

What this says is that there seems to be wisdom in the government’s focus on buttressing the country’s infrastructure. You may recall that this was the main, if not the only subject of the President’s much maligned State-of-the-Nation Address last year when she boasted about all those roads and bridges that were being built as legacy of her administration.

Unfortunately, the data also show that good intentions are puny when subjected to the vagaries of wide-scale greed and inefficiency. We ranked dismally (101st) in terms of quality of infrastructure. This only validates observations that all those roads, bridges, and other infrastructures fail to meet benchmarks. Juxtapose these with the other results of the survey, particularly our pitiful ranking in terms of wastefulness of government spending (such as distributing cash to congressmen and governors) and the perceived high levels of corruption—and we get the really depressing picture of the magnitude of pillage and plunder occurring in our country.

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To paraphrase Mr. Austero, there are 5 main reasons why the Philippines is losing out to our Asian neighbors in terms of business competetiveness and productivity:

1) Government wastefulness and inefficiency.
2) Wide-scale greed
3) High levels of corruption.
4) An inefficient government bureaucracy
5) Legislating wage increases instead of letting market forces drive wages.

Reading this report in its entirety, it becomes clear why the Philippine government encourages its middle class to become OFWs. The 134 elite families would rather keep protectionist laws rather than free up the Philippine economy to foreign investors which would have the net effect of increasing local employment. The elite families would lose their monopolies and thus their stranglehold control on the economy if foreign investors are allowed to compete with them. OFWs are the result of protectionism. OFWs are a band-aid solution and de facto economic job program by a corrupt Philippine government. Unfortunately, the social consequences of OFW children growing up to be delinquent criminals due to lack of parental supervision has yet  to be factored economically.

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Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It's the courage to continue that counts.

I am underscoring these parts of Palahubog’s message….a well pointed unhappy situation in the Philippines …WHY THE PHILIPPINES IS FAR FROM BECOMING ONE OF THE COMPETING COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD….AND BAKIT? 

For example, among the factors that proved extremely problematic were corruption in government (the factor which scored highest), inadequate supply of infrastructure, policy instability, inefficient government bureaucracy, and yes, government instability. Out of 131 countries surveyed, the Philippines ranked 116th in terms of perceived diversion of public funds, and even lower (119th) in terms of public trust of politicians. Even independence of the judiciary ranked low (85th). ...As sited by Palahubog.

To paraphrase Mr. Austero, there are 5 main reasons why the Philippines is losing out to our Asian neighbors in terms of business competetiveness and productivity:

1) Government wastefulness and inefficiency.
2) Wide-scale greed
3) High levels of corruption.
4) An inefficient government bureaucracy
5) Legislating wage increases instead of letting market forces drive wages.

Reading this report in its entirety, it becomes clear why the Philippine government encourages its middle class to become OFWs. The 134 elite families would rather keep protectionist laws rather than free up the Philippine economy to foreign investors which would have the net effect of increasing local employment. The elite families would lose their monopolies and thus their stranglehold control on the economy if foreign investors are allowed to compete with them. OFWs are the result of protectionism. OFWs are a band-aid solution and de facto economic job program by a corrupt Philippine government. Unfortunately, the social consequences of OFW children growing up to be delinquent criminals due to lack of parental supervision has yet  to be factored economically.

Ilan SA MGA NARIRITO SA ABS-CBN forum ang may mga sapat na pag-iisip upang maintindihan ang kasamaan ng kinahihinatnan ng kasalukuyang kalagayan ng  ating mga kababayan, lalu na ang mga nagsisilaking mga bata… at ang kanilang mga kinabukasan? 

Sa dahilang ito kung bakit ako ay nagpapasalamat at may mga Pilipinong naglalakas loob na ibanyag at ibulatlat ang mga kasala-ulaan at mga kahidwaang nangyayari sa ilalim ng pangunguna ng isang mandaraya at huwad na pamahalaan ni Gloria Arroyo. 

 

The prove that this bogus regime is failing….look into the dismal situation of the country’s educational infrastructure.  And follow the trend that has been going on for the last FIVE YEARS….UNITED STATES IS SKIMMING off THE BEST OF OUR TEACHERS FROM OUR CLASSROOMS AND TAKING THEM TO THE CLASSROOMS OF THEIR FAILING CITY SCHOOLS ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES.   EVERY YEAR HUNDREDS OF TEACHERS ARE GOING AWAY AND ARE BEING HIRED TO TEACH THE CHILDREN OF THE BRONX, THE failing CITIES OF THE STATES OF UNITED STATES WHERE THEIR OWN USA TEACHERS ARE FAILING TO TEACH THEIR STUDENTS PROPERLY.  Pero sino ang naiiwan upang magturo ng  ating mga Batang Pilipino?  At can we blame and condemn our poor Filipino teachers to want to go away for better pay?  WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS MASS EXODUS OF OUR BEST OF THE BESTEST TEACHERS?  WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO OUR FILIPINO CHILIDREN?  What will they become when they become grown ups, unable to pass any entrance test or qualifying test in their own country? 

 

UNDER Gloria’s regime, the country is rudderless, without a leader to inspire the people to do honest labor and to keep their integrity in tact, their moral values incorruptible because the leader herself is a liar and a cheat who would rather go out to the world to borrow money, to make a deal with foreigners for  quick killings rather than inspire the country to develop their own through self-reliance and who is becoming an expert in corrupting her own countrymen.  WHAT A LEADER!!    

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domberjas:

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Hello DOMBERJAS:   Meron ang mga Hapon na wala ang mga english spokening Penoy:  HALIKA AT  IBUBULONG KO SA IYO AT MASAKIT ITO SA DAMDAMIN NG MGA PINOY NA BUHAY PA ANG MGA PAKIRAMDAM AT MAYROON PANG KAHIHIYAN:  ALAM MO.....ANG MGA HAPON, MAHALAGA SA KANILA ANG KANILANG MGA PAGKATAO.  MASKI HINDI SILA KUMAIN SA ORAS...HINDI BALE HUWAG LANG SILANG MAKAHELERA NG MGA SINUNGALING, MAGNANAKAW AT MGA MANDARAYA.  SABI MO NGA, YUNG IBA NAGHAHARAKIRI PA PAG NAPAHIYA AT NABULATLAT ANG KANILANG MGA LIHIM.  ALAM MO BA KUNG ANO ANG GINAGAWA NG MGA PENOY PAG NAHALUNGKAT NA ANG KANILANG MGA KAKUWANAN? 

Hummm...HAYAAN MO NA NGA.  HINDI KO NA ITUTULOY ITO. maraming masasaktan.  KAYA...HALA, TULOY ANG RIGODON!  PRE-PREHONG NAMANG MGA SINUNGALING...AT MANDARAYA, KAHIT NA MGA NAKABARONG TAGALOG PA AT MGA NAKATERNO.  BASTA...WALANG UNGKATAN.  KUNYARI ME PAMAHALAANG MALINIS, MAKATAO, MATUWID, AT MAKATARUNGAN, KAHIT NA SA TOTOO LANG MGA MANDARAYA, MANGDARAMBONG, MGA SINUNGALING, MGA PEKE, AT WALANG PAGPAPAHALAGA SA KATARUNGAN DAHIL THE BOTTOM LINE THEY ARE NOTHNG BUT MAKADOLAR. 

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