The Broader Look
Business Mirror recognizes the wide array of topics that Filipinos need to talk about in these challenging times. And as a response to the ever-changing terrain of the country’s economy and the Filipino collective struggle, Business Mirror’s The Broader Look collects and publishes a series of articles relevant to the general Filipino public, from pandemic developments and vaccine updates to cryptocurrency and esports income financial effects. Stay updated and on the loop with Business Mirror The Broader Look, and never worry whether you’re missing out while you’re at home.
Pandemic highlights PHL property problems for poor Pinoys
It is estimated that around 2.2 million Filipinos or 5.4 percent of the urban population in 2012 lived in informal settlements. As much as 1.3 million are living in Metro Manila, according to World Bank estimates in 2017.
[Backliners] Making sure food supply and demand are addressed, even while working from home
Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, a typical work week for Zian Serranilla, a Key Accounts Executive of snacks company Mondelez Philippines assigned to the SM team, consisted of administrative and field days.
Pandemic shapes direction of Duterte administration’s unfinished business
By Jovee Marie N. Dela Cruz, Butch Fernandez & Bernadette D. Nicolas
Wednesdays with John Mangun
Investing in the stock market is like walking on a tightrope and requires being nimble and proactive. It is wonderful to talk about all the money being made on the Initial Public Offerings and with the “rocketchips” before they crash.
Monday Market Talk
Of soybeans, sugar and coconuts: Will PHL farm sector gain from US-China trade war?
The trade war between Beijing and Washington has shaken up the world market since it started in 2018. A part of the economic disputes between the world’s two largest economies involve millions of farmers: “Escalation of a trade war between the United States and China can throw a monkey wrench in the gears moving agriculture trade.
Pandemic highlights PHL property problems for poor Pinoys
Wednesdays with John Mangun
Steady economic policy failures over a prolonged period create lack of confidence in government. This is followed by an “out with the old; in with the new” action. Unfortunately, bad economic policy reaches far into the future, and like a mammoth supertanker, cannot change course quickly.
[Backliners] In the toughest battle of our time, they keep the lights on
Their lives are at risk every day, but mostly from hazards they constantly train to handle—the possibility of electrocution. In the era of the Covid-19 pandemic, however, they concede the perils are different, sending a certain chill down their spine as they set out to work each day. Handling huge voltages of electricity is something they know about, but dealing with an unseen virus, and worse, possibly infecting one’s loved ones, is mental torture.
PHL grapples with impact of host countries’ anti-Covid measures on OFW remittances
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are considered modern-day heroes because they save the economy more than once by sending hard-earned cash back to the Philippines, boosting liquidity and consumption. As host countries grapple with coronavirus disease of 2019 (Covid-19), the tap substantial to gross domestic product at 10 percent, at least may only give drips.
Pandemic highlights PHL property problems for poor Pinoys
Photo & additional reports by Nonilon Reyes / Chief of Photographers
Wednesdays with John Mangun: Understanding price discovery
With all the exciting things going on in the Philippines and around the world, talking about the stock market would seem to be a low priority. Except with all the exciting things going on with the stock markets in the Philippines and around the world, talking about the stock market is critical.
[Backliners] How a group of Millennials used social media and technology to help strawberry farmers sell their produce during Covid-19 pandemic
As the lockdown pushed the Philippine supply chain into disarray, farmers found a helping hand from agri-preneurs.
Covid-19 propels city-farming opportunities to centerstage
The coronavirus disease of 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic not only highlighted the flaws of various food systems in the world but also emphasized one vital thing that has been ailing the farm sector: neglect for food production.
Of soybeans, sugar and coconuts: Will PHL farm sector gain from US-China trade war?
THE trade war between Beijing and Washington has shaken up the world market since it started in 2018. A part of the economic disputes between the world’s two largest economies involve millions of farmers: “Escalation of a trade war between the United States and China can throw a monkey wrench in the gears moving agriculture trade.
Wednesdays with John Mangun: Stay frosty, Philippines
Will Pinoys abroad shrug off PhilHealth’s notifications?
By Bernadette D. Nicolas (BusinessMirror) & Jeremaiah M. Opiniano (OFW Journalism ConsortiumReporting from Manila, Philippines and Adelaide, Australia)
PHL grapples with impact of host countries’ anti-Covid measures on OFW remittances
By Samuel P. Medenilla, Cai U. Ordinario & Tyrone Jasper C. Piad
Covid-19 propels city-farming opportunities to centerstage
Nursing Wounds: A closer look at the nurses’ deployment ban
LEONIDES Hill, or Diesh to friends, is a single mother of two children and a registered Filipino nurse by profession.
All eyes on the Kaliwa Dam project: Will its benefits outweigh the costs?
As the number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in the Philippines breached the 15,000-mark, with majority in the National Capital Region (NCR), the importance of water, its sufficient supply, safety level and accessibility has been emphasized during the pandemic.
PHL health system’s howling issues hamper fight vs pandemic
By Cai U. Ordinario, Bernadette D. Nicholas & Jeremaiah M. Opiniano
Financial sector rushes to find middle ground in pandemic battlefield
NUMBERS are heartless; but are scary sometimes. P2 trillion and 30 million. The former is the estimated cost to the economy of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. The latter is the number of Filipinos that government officials said could be out of jobs.
Shookt!
THE Sars-Cov-2 virus, the strain that causes the coronavirus disease of 2019 (Covid-19), is 0.125 micron in size—so minuscule it’s invisible to the naked eye. And it packed a punch; more than enough to send shockwaves to the Philippines’s food supply chain, disrupting and exposing the system’s frailties.
Pandemic propels fintech platforms to frontlines, bigger presence in future
Travel and tourism sector vows to make it more fun again in the PHL—and safe, too
By Jovee Marie N. Dela Cruz, Recto S. Mercene and Ma. Stella F. Arnaldo