Dindo Manhit, President of the Stratbase-Albert del Rosario Institute (ADRi) for Strategic and International Studies Image Source: BusinessWorld The traffic situation in Metro Manila has become indescribable. Traveling between Makati City and Quezon City easily takes four to six hours of a commuter’s day. Worse, during the rainy season, Metro Manila grinds to a halt… Read More

Carl O. Schuster, Captain, USN (Ret) Adjunct Professor, Hawaii Pacific University Diplomacy and Military Science Program Although not unexpected, China’s neighbors should take warning from China’s rejection of the International Court of Arbitration ruling on its South China Sea claims. Beijing has used the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea as the basis… Read More

Angelica Mangahas, Deputy Executive Director of the Stratbase-ADRi  For most years since independence, the Philippines has not faced a serious armed threat from another country. The quiet has been explained as the result of many things: the disinterest of major powers, the goodwill fostered by ASEAN, and the focus of Southeast Asian governments on domestic… Read More

October 7, 2016 Renato de Castro, Stratbase-ADRi Trustee Image Source: The Philippine Star Located in the heart of Southeast Asia, the South China Sea is a semi-enclosed sea surrounded by China and several small and militarily weaker Southeast Asian powers such as the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei. Since the mid-1970s, these states have been… Read More

A presentation of Bangko Sentral Deputy Governor for Monetary Stability Diwa Guinigundo. An Economic Agenda

A presentation by Secretary Benjamin Diokno of the Department of Budget and Management. Toward Fiscal Discipline

A presentation by Mr. Aekopol Chongvilaivan, Philippines’ Country Economist at the Asian Development Bank. Philippine Economic Outlook 2017