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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.