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Volume 11 No. 10
Crisis? What Crisis?
A Year-End Review
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Editor's Note

Our Top Ten List

News & Updates:

NAIA 3
Terminal Case

Banks unload P26.2B NPAs
Spring Cleaning

Employment
Wanted: More Jobs

Commercial Bank's NPLs
Big Burden

Governance

Countering Corruption
The country’s No. 1 headache is not the economy; it’s corruption

Natural Resources

Clearing Mines
The Supreme Court comes out with a landmark decision on the mining industry

Power

Selling Spree Starts
After a slow start, PSALM bids out a big one

Oil

Volatility at the Pump
Oil prices were adjusted more than a dozen time in 2004

Fiscal Deficit

Time Bomb
The country faces a fiscal crisis in two years, yet only one new tax measure has been enacted

OFWs

Dilemma & Opportunity
Overseas Filipinos provide much-needed remittances but drain the country of human capital

Environment

Man-made Calamity
A series of typhoons shows how vulnerable our environment is

Population

An Age-Old Problem
To support current population growth, the economy needs to grow by 10% annually - a tall order indeed

Agriculture

Unexpected Growth
The farm sector pulls of an outstanding year

Politics

The Plague
Politics continues to dominate the Philippines, and there lies the problem