Dindo Manhit, President, Stratbase ADR Institute Since the virus that causes COVID-19 popped up in Wuhan, China in December 2019, the number of cases around the globe has surpassed the one million mark and the worldwide death toll has already reached more than 50,000. The rapid spread of the virus has tested the limits of… Read More

Dr. Renato de Castro, Trustee and Convenor of the National Security and East Asian Affairs Program, Stratbase ADR Institute In early 2018, a group of medical experts met in a World Health Organization (WHO) sponsored conference in Geneva to project how a global pandemic might take place in the third decade of the 21st century.… Read More

We are pleased to provide you public access to Stratbase ADR Institute’s Economic Snapshots for the First Quarter of 2020. This Quarter discusses an overview of Philippine economic performance and socio economic and business outlook in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. It offers insights on the impacts on economic indicators and growth targets as uncertainty… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President, Stratbase ADR Institute The developments and events in the past two weeks have been overwhelming. Just days after a “general community quarantine” was declared, an “enhanced community quarantine” (ECQ) was imposed on the whole island of Luzon. Several days later, President Duterte sought for and was given “special powers” to facilitate and… Read More

Dr. Renato de Castro, Trustee and Convenor of the National Security and East Asian Affairs Program, Stratbase ADR Institute Since mid-January 2020, China’s political leadership single-mindedly concentrated on managing a deadly coronavirus epidemic that began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Recently, however, China has been conducting a major diplomatic and humanitarian offensive aimed… Read More

Paco A. Pangalangan, Executive Director, Stratbase ADR Institute If the objective of the Bayanihan Heal as One Act was to unite the Filipino people to collectively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, as its title implies, then it should have focused more on creating an environment that empowers multi-sectoral partnership and a bit less on granting… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President, Stratbase ADR Institute Besieged by the COVID-19 pandemic and pushed into adversity, the current circumstance has stimulated a surge in patriotic and emphatic response from the private sector and civil society groups. The health crisis has plunged Luzon into a 24-hour lockdown which tremendously impacts upon the livelihood of the most vulnerable… Read More