Policy Briefs
2026
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- "Is the Philippines a nation of gluttons?". Asian Institute of Management
- "Could Pope Leo XIV and Karl Marx see eye to eye?". Carlos L. Tiu School of Economics. De La Salle University, Manila.
- "Lessons from Sectoral Financial Balances for Philippine Crises" (With Mariel Monica Sauler). Carlos L. Tiu School of Economics. De La Salle University, Manila.
- "In Defense of the Holy Fiscal Deficit: Accounting and Economics" (With Mariel Monica Sauler). Carlos L. Tiu School of Economics. De La Salle University, Manila.
2025
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- “The Fiscal Deficit and National Debt: Can we get it right once and for all?” (With Mariel Monica Sauler). DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2025-07-059
- “The tariff war and implications for the Philippines” (With Eva Marie Aragones and Mariel Monica Sauler). DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2025-07-058
- “Letter to the Philippine Economic Team "At a Crossroads: Progress or More Of the Same (MOTS)?"” (With Mariel Monica Sauler, Gerardo Largoza, Susan Kurdli, Alellie Sobreviñas, Christopher James Cabuay). DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2025-06-056
2024
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- “The 2024 IMF-World Bank meetings and their recommendations for Asia: An assessment” (With Jacobe Joaquin Sevilla). DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2024-11-046
- “Filipino capitalists, UNITE!” (With Beatrice Elaine Banzon). DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2024-10-044
- “Development in the 21st century: Waiting for Godot” (With Beatrice Elaine Banzon). DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2024-09-035
- “The Philippine Economy: Glass Half Empty or Glass Half Full?” (With Susan Kurdli). DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2024-08-034
- “The Philippine Economy until 2030: MOTS or Progress?” (With Pedro Pascual). DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2024-07-033
- “Why we missed the industrialization wagon: can we still catch it?” (With Pedro Pascual). DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2024-06-032
- “Back to Investment: Is the World Bank running out of ideas?” (With Pedro Pascual). DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2024-05-029
- “Public-Private Partnerships: Unmasking the reality” (With Pedro Pascual). DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2024-03-027
- “Tax the rich” (With Pedro Pascual). DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2024-02-026
- “Developing countries and external debt: What is wrong?” (With Jose Antonio Perez Montiel). DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2024-01-023
2023
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- “Argentina and the Philippines: Similar development struggles” (With Matias Vernango). DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2023-12-013
- “Will the Philippine Development Plan 2023-2028 targets be met?” DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2023-11-012
- “Tourism: the industry of those that could not industrialize” DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2023-11-011
- “Why the public discourse on education is wrong". DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2023-09-009
- “The role of Filipino conglomerates in the nation's development." DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2023-08-008
- “What Russia-Ukraine conflict may imply for the future of dollar-centered monetary system". DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2023-07-007
- “Reflections on Inflation: how bad has it been?". DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2023-07-006
- “Philippine Structural Transformation — With or Without Maharlika” (With Gerardo L. Largoza, Mariel Monica Sauler, Christopher James R. Cabuay, Arlene B. Inocencio, Albert E. Lamberte, Jason P. Alinsunurin, Lawrence B. Dacuycuy and Natasha Amber Y. Cabiltes). DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2023-07-005
- “Monitoring the Philippine Economy State of the Economy Report” (With Mitzie Conchada, Lawrence Dacuycuy, Edgar Desher Empeño and Brendan Miranda). DLSU-AKI PEM, July 2023
- “What innovation means for the Philippines". DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2023-06-004
- “Annual growth of 6.5-8% until 2028: How?". DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2023-06-003
- “The Administration’s objective to reduce the fiscal deficit to 3% of GDP by 2028: Why and how?". DLSU-AKI Policy Brief 2023-06-002
- “National Debt and the misleading family metaphor: A message to the economic managers and journalists”. DLSU-AKI Policy Brief, 2023-06-001