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Pork redux? Districts of LP solons, allies get biggest slabs
THERE ARE clear winners, as there are clear losers, in terms of provinces and congressional districts and project types, in the distribution of over P11 billion in tax money under…
By Malou Mangahas·August 6, 2014
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The poor, the pretty, and DAP
NO LESS than the home province of Budget and Management Secretary Florencio ‘Butch’ B. Abad, head of the architect agency of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), received…
By Adminnewspack·August 6, 2014
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Many projects short on speed, long on confusion
IT WAS supposed to speed up the disbursement of state monies for high-impact projects that have been badly needed by the people. Yet while there are government agencies that offer…
By Malou Mangahas·August 5, 2014
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DAP in ARMM
According to a July 2014 official report on ARMM’s Transition Investment Support Plan (TISP), implementation of the DAP-funded TISP projects had involved a multi-layered network of…
By Adminnewspack·August 5, 2014
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Results, impact? DBM, COA figures clash
IN ITS 2012 Annual Financial Report for National Government, the Commission on Audit (COA) said regular appropriation for programmed activities of the departments and agencies of…
By Malou Mangahas·July 22, 2014
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Framing DAP
THE STORY of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) has been debated using various frames. President Benigno S. Aquino III has offered the “right vs. wrong” frame, saying that…
By Adminnewspack·July 22, 2014
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Funds freed in a rush, projects yield slow results
THE GOOD, the bad, and the dead combine, in terms of projects and activities, under the Aquino administration’s Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), which is now wreaking havoc…
By Malou Mangahas·July 21, 2014
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P32B not on GAA
AT LEAST P32.23 billion of taxpayers’ money had been released under the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) for projects and activities that had no funding cover or were not…
By Adminnewspack·July 21, 2014
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A maze of good, bad, open, opaque projects
“Good intentions are not good enough.” That, according to Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio ‘Babes’ Singson, is the lesson from the sorry episode that was the…
By Malou Mangahas·July 20, 2014
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The story of DAP
IT TOOK a peeved senator, who was being accused of corruption, for the public to be inadvertently introduced to what is now known as DAP or the Disbursement Acceleration Program.
By Rowena F Caronan·July 20, 2014
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Hacendados y politicos
Photo by Julius D. Mariveles HE WAS born to one of the old-rich families of Negros Occidental in the sprawling Hacienda Binitin in the town of Murcia, but Roberto L. Montelibano…
By Julius D Mariveles·April 15, 2014
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Tiempo Muerto for Negros, Tiempo Suerte for Filipinos?
CUARESMA or Holy Week is the time when Filipinos reflect on the agony of Jesus Christ. It is also the time when the mamumugon — the workers in the vast haciendas or plantations of…
By Julius D Mariveles·April 15, 2014
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China’s Scandal-Torn Oil Industry Embraces Tax Havens, Offshore Records Show
One Man’s Legal Battle Against Oil Giant Highlights Role that Offshore Murk Plays in China’s Economy.
By Alexa Olesen And Michael Hudson International Consortium Of Investigative Journalists·January 23, 2014
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Offshore Leaks China: How We Did It
A multinational team of journalists spent months combing through secret tax haven records revealing offshore holdings of China’s rich and powerful
By Marina Walker Guevara International Consortium Of Investigative Journalists·January 22, 2014
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Leaked Records Reveal Offshore Holdings of China’s Elite
Files Shed Light On More Than 20,000 Tax Haven Clients from Hong Kong and Mainland China
By Marina Walker Guevara Gerard Ryle Alexa Olesen Mar Cabra Michael Hudson And Christoph Giesen International Consortium Of Investigative Journalists·January 22, 2014
