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abtest

EDITORIAL – Profiting from suffering

January 17, 2020 - 12:00am

Pricing of consumer goods follows the law of supply and demand.

Opinion

Uber's surge pricing

By Nigel Paul C. Villarete | March 26, 2015 - 12:00am

Other than the fact that the Uber "mobile-app-based transport service" actually uses privately-owned cars, and not Philippine government-registered ones for public use, the fare rate pricing mechanism is also the...

Freeman Opinion

Market failure

By FIRST PERSON | By Alex Magno | November 25, 2014 - 12:00am

Was there market failure when speculative pricing ran amuck late last year, causing energy prices to spike and threatening consumers with economic devastation?

Opinion

Building a lower-carbon, higher-energy future

By Ben Van Beurden | October 20, 2014 - 12:00am

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions while keeping the lights on for a growing global population is a huge but critical challenge....

Lifestyle Business

The Psychology of Pricing (Is there such a thing as Fair Market Value?)

By Rose Fres Fausto | July 16, 2014 - 12:00am

Price is the quantity of payment or compensation given by one party to another in return for goods or services.

Health And Family

Culprit

By FIRST PERSON | By Alex Magno | April 15, 2014 - 12:00am

When energy bureaucrats failed to run the 650 MW Malaya power plant when prices at the electricity wholesale market was spiking wildly last November, it was easy to conclude this was due to pure incompetence.

Opinion

Anatomy of corruption

By Gerardo P. Sicat | October 30, 2013 - 12:00am

Under the law, corruption is illegal. In the public sphere, corruption may be committed in the award of contracts having to do with the use of public funds or through unlawful and dishonest deviation(s) from the...

Business

TP eight months later

By Maria Carmela M. Peralta | October 15, 2013 - 12:00am

Eight months have passed since the issuance by the Finance Secretary of Revenue Regulations No. 02-2013 (RR No. 02-2013), dated Jan. 23, 2013, which provide for the transfer pricing guidelines or the guidelines in...

Business

Samoa airline introduces pay-by-weight pricing

April 5, 2013 - 6:00am

A tiny Samoa airline is giving passengers a big reason to lose weight: tickets sold not by the seat, but by the kilogram.

World

Microfinance industry needs to implement reforms, reorientation

By Ted P. Torres | March 29, 2011 - 12:00am

The anti-poverty business formation known as microfinance is under attack worldwide, but efforts to get it back on track are afoot.

Banking