Dindo Manhit, President of the Stratbase ADR Institute This year, the recorded national inflation rate has been steady in its increase. The first month of the year was at 3.4 percent — a number that, by August, had ballooned to 6.4 percent. The consistency of the uptick is expected to continue until the end of… Read More

Atty. Hannah Viola, Energy and Infrastructure Fellow of the Stratbase ADR Institute and Convenor of CitizenWatch Philippines Three reputable international organizations, namely the Asian Development Bank, International Monetary Fund and Fitch Ratings Inc., have downgraded their economic outlook for the Philippines for this year. ADB revised its projections from 6.8 percent to 6.4 percent in 2018… Read More

Atty. Hannah Viola, Energy and Infrastructure Fellow of the Stratbase ADR Institute and Convenor of CitizenWatch Philippines Last week, consumer group CitizenWatch Philippines, in partnership with Stratbase ADR Institute, hosted an energy stakeholder’s forum entitled “Energy Outlook: Supplying Rising Demand at Lower Cost.” The forum aimed to provide different stakeholders in the power industry a conducive… Read More

Remarks by Ambassador Albert F. del Rosario, chairman of the Stratbase ADRi and former secretary of Foreign Affairs, at the Conferment of Honorary Doctorate Degree in Humanities by the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) on September 25, 2018 First of all, I would like to proffer my profound thanks to the Ateneo for sharing its… Read More

It is with pleasure that we share with you our SPARK paper for the month of September entitled “The Duterte Presidency: In the Balance Two Years After” written by Dr. Jaime M. Jimenez, a Senior Policy Research Analyst and Head of the Editorial Board at Stratbase ADR Institute. The paper analyzes President Duterte’s second year… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President of the Stratbase ADR Institute Eight months since the first phase of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law was implemented, inflation hit a near-decade-high 6.4%, well beyond government forecasts and, more crucially, something that may upend years’ worth of significant economic growth. While the administration’s ambitious infrastructure agenda is… Read More

It is with pleasure that we share with you our Occasional Paper for September entitled “Philippine Defense Modernization: A Comparison Between Horizon 2 and the Military Modernization of Indonesia and Vietnam” written by Gregory Wyatt of Pacific Strategies and Assessments (PSA) Philippines Consultancy. The paper compares the recent efforts of the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam… Read More