By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Under the presidency of Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva of the Workers Party, Brazil’s economy grew phenomenally, with vast well-developed agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and service sectors topping all South American countries. (Brazil is one of the world’s leading “emerging markets,” known as the BRICS:…
Day: June 22, 2013
Disaster Philippines
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Nearly 2,500 people — 2,360 to be exact — died in 2012 in natural disasters in the Philippines, says the nongovernmental Citizens Disaster Response Center (CDRC), putting it ahead of all other countries in the world including China, which was second with 771 deaths. But because “only”…
A quitter never wins
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The impasse in the peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GPH) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) brings to mind a popular tagline coined by the late Manuel Uy, a highly successful wholesaler of sweepstakes tickets from the late ’50s onwards,…