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Minh Cong Nguyen is a senior data scientist with the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank. His research interests include poverty, inequality,

THE number of the country’s millionaires is expected to triple in less than a decade, according to an economist from HSBC. HSBC Asean economist Aris Dacanay said this will be driven by the increase in the number of middle-class Filipinos. The growth of the middle class is the reason for…

THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Several weeks ago, top officials of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) visited the Capitol of Rizal Province. The occasion was a momentous one: DICT and the Rizal provincial government inaugurated a free Wi-Fi service for the University of Rizal

Twenty-six young individuals have begun training to access job opportunities in the tourism industry, through the Saint Lucia Hospitality...

We all know that surveys are traditional tools used to divine or infer voter preference. But wait! Can we use OTHER data sources to do the same thing… even better? It turns out we can! Surveys are a lagging indicator of voter preferences, while social sentiments in contrast is a LEADING indicator.

Lead Health Economist / Specialist, Dakar, Senegal Organization: The World Bank Country: Senegal City: Dakar, Senegal Office: World Bank in Dakar...

BusinessWorld VECTORJUICE-FREEPIK Last year, the Economic Policy Institute reported that the ratio of CEO to average employee pay in the top US companies increased from a low 31 to one in 1978, 61 to one in 1989, 118 to one in 1995, to a whopping 320 to one in 2019. My mind reels at such inequality, but there’s more. The New York Times reported recently that despite the terrible impacts of the pandemic on corporate bottom lines and jobs, the CEOs of some of the hardest hit co...