By Joey Sarte Salceda Chair, Institute for Risk and Strategic Studies, Inc. The 4.4 percent GDP growth we recorded in 2025 may not be as
Category: Opinion
How Not to Be the Biggest Loser: Lessons for the Philippines from Russia’s Strategic Collapse
By Joey Sarte SalcedaChair, Institute for Risk and Strategic Studies, Inc. The most dangerous position in geopolitics is not weakness. It is overcommitment. Three years
No Middle Class Without Wage Growth
By Joey Sarte Salceda Chair, Institute for Risk and Strategic Studies In 2001, the typical Filipino worker captured 48 percent of the value they produced.
The Limits of Macroeconomics and the Challenges of 2026
By Joey Sarte Salceda Chair, Institute for Risk and Strategic Studies By conventional standards, the Philippine economy is doing fine. Growth rates, while not stellar,
The Case for Light Digitalization
By Joey Sarte Salceda Chair, Institute for Risk and Strategic Studies, Inc. Many proposals for government digitalization today are ambitious, sophisticated, and well intentioned. They
My biggest regret in the Free College Tuition Law: Conditionally-free TVET
By Joey Sarte Salceda Institute for Risk and Strategic Studies, Inc. Success has many fathers, they say, but failure is an orphan. The Free College Tuition
Political reforms: Party lists and dynasties
By Joey Sarte Salceda Chair, Institute for Risk and Strategic Studies, Inc. First things first. Over the past three days, some quarters have tried to
The 2025 Albay Election Showdown: The Governor, the Congressman, and the Plot Twist
By: Jay Carizo In Philippine politics, alliances are like pie crusts — made to be broken (and, in most cases, eaten). This is also true
DIGITAL CRIMES
By E.V.Rieza The rapid advancement of technology is really scary. The Philippine Cybercrime Act of 2012 doesn’t seem to stop abusers who continuously use various
Why the legal profession is more attractive than the others
A brouhaha ensued over a comment that this country needs more doctors and scientists than lawyers. The comment came on the heels of the release of the results of the Best Bar Ever 2022 that produced 8,000 plus lawyers.
