On Q4 2025 GDP: Measuring ghosts 

By Joey Sarte Salceda Chair, Institute for Risk and Strategic Studies, Inc. The 4.4 percent GDP…

Time to Fix the Extractives Fiscal Regime: A Clean 60-40 for the Filipino People

By Joey Sarte Salceda Chair, Institute for Risk and Strategic Studies, Inc. President Marcos on January 19…

How Not to Be the Biggest Loser: Lessons for the Philippines from Russia’s Strategic Collapse

By Joey Sarte SalcedaChair, Institute for Risk and Strategic Studies, Inc. The most dangerous position in…

No Middle Class Without Wage Growth

By Joey Sarte Salceda   Chair, Institute for Risk and Strategic Studies In 2001, the typical Filipino…

The Limits of Macroeconomics and the Challenges of 2026

By Joey Sarte Salceda Chair, Institute for Risk and Strategic Studies By conventional standards, the Philippine…

The Case for Light Digitalization

By Joey Sarte Salceda Chair, Institute for Risk and Strategic Studies, Inc. Many proposals for government…

My biggest regret in the Free College Tuition Law: Conditionally-free TVET

By Joey Sarte Salceda Institute for Risk and Strategic Studies, Inc.   Success has many fathers, they say,…

Political reforms: Party lists and dynasties

By Joey Sarte Salceda Chair, Institute for Risk and Strategic Studies, Inc. First things first. Over…

Statement of the Dayang Family Four Months After Journalist Johnny Dayang’s Assassination

On this day, August 29, the Church commemorates the Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist, who…

Fake news in the age of AI 

By Joe Zaldarriaga When the Philippine Embassy in Washington issued a public warning regarding the spread…