‘Big Deals’ Archives
Another set of agricultural production indicators
This is part of the series in this column devoted to an assessment of the region’s economic performance in 2011. Rice production has been mentioned here. In today’s column it will be fish, livestock and poultry production. While 2011 was a good year for aquaculture (compared with 2010 production) with a substantial 20.3 percent increase as shown in the 2011 preliminary data of the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics Office, commercial fishing declined by 10.6% and municipal fishing by [...]
Inflation and Employment, 2010 – 2011
It is interesting to take note of the inflation rates in December 2010 and December 2011. These statistics reveal a lot about the region’s economy. The region had a 3.1 percent average inflation rate in 2010. A year later, this was at 4.5 percent. This shows how the rate remained and well below 10 percent, the rate which usually means prices are outrunning increases in income and thus showing a reduction in the goods that people can buy. Compare this increase in prices to employment. [...]
Agriculture in 2011: a glimpse at palay production
The data is not all in yet, but there are already indications that the agriculture sector of Eastern Visayas had modest gains in 2011. In today’s column, the focus is on palay production. Palay production figures show a modest gain of 2.1 percent, comparing 2010 to 2011 production. From 964,145 metric tons in 2010, palay production went up to 984,017 metric tons in 2011. As usual and expected, Leyte topped the region with 526,762 metric tons produced in 2011 with Eastern Samar [...]
Teaching the Regional Development Plan
Making students aware of the Eastern Visayas Regional Development Plan (RDP), 2011-2016 is a way of ensuring that the Plan is understood by key members of the community. Given that the RDP is a source of ideas for a lot of subjects which are taken up in college, formally integrating it into the curriculum through selected subjects can significantly enhance learning that is relevant to the community where the students live. In the case of the RDP for Eastern Visayas, the main thrusts are [...]
The green economy: wrap-up
In the past few weeks, this column has focused on sustainable development particularly in the context of the “green economy”. This is an important topic for everybody. Sustainable development has three fundamental components: environmental protection, economic growth and social equity. Sustainable development focuses on finding strategies “to promote economic and social advancement in ways that avoid environmental degradation, over exploitation or pollution and sidelines less [...]
The green economy: infrastructure
To wrap-up the treatment in this column of various aspects of the green economy, today’s column is devoted to infrastructure: energy, waste and water. Under energy, an important element is to use a triple bottom-line approach in the programs and projects of the energy sector, e.g. economic, social and environmental aspects are factored in. The participants in the Consultation in Sustainable Development held in Tacloban City last November recommended that 80% of the royalty from the [...]
The Green economy: environment and natural resources
In past issues, this column has devoted a lot of space on the green economy, covering green cities, industries and agriculture. In today’s column, the focus is environment and natural resources. The participants in the Consultation on Sustainable Development held last November in Tacloban City pointed out some interesting regional aspects of the green economy as it pertains to the Environment and Natural Resources (ENR). An element of the green economy states that the ENR sector should [...]
The green economy: agriculture and fisheries
Happy New Year! It would have been timely to write on the economic prospects for 2012. That will be done in a future issue. It seems more important to continue to write about the Green Economy (GE), a topic mentioned in this column several times last December. The green economy in relation to agriculture and forestry is an interesting topic in determining what can happen in the economy of Eastern Visayas in the years ahead. In a way, the existence of a green economy in the [...]
The green economy: Industries
In last week’s issue, the workshop outputs of the Eastern Visayas Regional Consultation on Sustainable Development held in Tacloban City last November 15, 2011 were mentioned, particularly on Green Cities. Another workshop group delved on Green Industries. An important element of the green economy is that green industries observe the balanced consideration of economic growth, social progress and environmental protection. The group believes that it takes a strong political will to [...]
Greening the cities: the Northern Mindanao floods
During the November 15, 2011 Eastern Visayas Regional Consultation on Sustainable Development held in Tacloban City, one of the five workshop groups was called “Green Cities”. This group had interesting recommendations. The group agreed that green cities envision strategies on spatial integration taking into account sustainable management of land and other natural resources and disaster risk reduction. In this aspect, one issue mentioned was: the non-enforcement of some provisions in [...]
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