Bernardo M. Villegas
 
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Addressing Environmental Sustainability for Business (Part 1)

            The appointment by President Duterte of Gina Lopez, a well-known advocate of environmental sustainability, as Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), should be taken as an opportunity by business people to take a hard and close look at their ability to incorporate the protection of the environment into the very core of their corporate strategy.  Protection of the environment should no longer be an after thought or worse, just a PR ploy of companies operating in the Philippines and for that matter in the entire ASEAN region in which there are many challenges to environmental sustainability, especially in mining, agribusiness, and power plants.

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POSITIVE DIMENSIONS OF POPULATION GROWTH

       The historical trends, empirical findings, and policy updates are discussed in detail in the essays compiled in this book. The most convincing argument that supports the thesis of the book, i.e. that population growth is a poitive factor in attaining sustainable human development, is found in the foreword to the book, which is adopted from an article written by Mr. Roberto de Ocampo, former Finance Secretary of the Philippines and multi-awarded finance official in Asia. Thanks to the continuing growth of the Philippines population, Filipinos are in more than 100 countries all over the world, contributing much-needed foreign echange and purchasing power to the Philippine economy and fostering the human and spiritual development of the most diverse of peoples and cultures on this planet.

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Inside Business: Critique on RH Bill

ANC Interview by Coco Alcuaz regarding the RH bill and the Philippine economy.