Legislators seem to be in a hurry to amend the rice tariffication law (RTL) five years after it was enacted, with a growing consensus that it has failed to deliver on the promise to significantly bring down prices of rice. Recent price movements of rice, which is the top expenditure item among the bottom 40 percent of the country’s income groups, will bolster such arguments that it has fallen short of expectations that it would
In a forthcoming episode of “Proyekto Pilipino,” the civics program of which I’m a part, our guest Mahar Lagmay answered our questions about the heat wave that made everyone’s lives a misery over recent weeks. During our discussion, he pointed out that we now have to prepare for something completely different. If the record-breaking heat was an aspect of El Niño, which brings drought in its wake, we now have to brace ourselves for La Niña, in which the rain and flooding will be our new normal for time to come. He made an interesting point about how much of the
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