The biggest concern is what China, whose tariff on its exports to the US is a whopping 145 percent, will do. Under such circumstance, US demand for and consumption of Chinese products will go down and thus create a significant production overcapacity in China.
During the past weeks, the world was roiled by US President Trump’s issuance of an Executive Order levying what he calls “reciprocal tariffs” to practically all countries in the world, at varying rates.
The Roadmap shows a comparative analysis of rice farming productivity in the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand.
There have been continuing commentaries on how bad our agricultural sector, particularly rice farming, has been for a long time now. Sadly, there appears to be no clear dramatic improvement in sight.
In recent weeks, there appears to be a welling up of commentaries, particularly on social media, about corruption in our government. There seems to be a growing perception that this disastrous practice is getting worse in terms of both its widening spread and the increasing scale of the amounts involved.
Months after the release of the results of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2022, the very low performance of Philippine students in this international assessment is still often discussed among various concerned groups.
At this modern time of general abundance in the world and, particularly, in our part of the world, we find our country with an incongrous incidence of widespread poverty.
Nowadays, we frequently read and hear lamentations about why our country, the Philippines, has fallen to the bottom in terms of per capita GDP among the Bigger 6 ASEAN countries from our top position some fifty years ago.
