Social Climate

Our population handicap

The Philippine national hunger problem would not be as hard to manage if there were…

Is there a happiness contest?

Each year, the fourth week of March is when the World Happiness Report (WHR) comes…

Answering a leading question

The classic example of a leading question is: “When did you stop beating your wife?”If…

My saints of the week

It’s been my hobby, for the past 20 years or so, to read stories of…

Jobs: the gender difference

I first appreciated the economic difference between men and women in the 1960s, when my…

Set real wage growth targets

I would like the Philippines, someday, to be a place where many people would like…

Poverty: the latest reminder

The main economic problem in the Philippines is its massive poverty, as sensed by the…

Inflation doesn’t hurt the rich

The title here is an educated guess since studying the rich isn’t my field of…

Ricky Abad, theater artist, and more

Of the many titles of my good friend, Ricardo “Ricky” G. Abad (1946-2023), who passed…

Record-low New Year fear

Late each year, since 2000, Social Weather Stations (SWS) has asked Filipinos nationwide whether they…