He missed her courtesy call during her trip to Manila last November, but President Aquino made it up to International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum here.
The Philippines is the only country in the world for which the International Monetary Fund has upgraded its economic growth forecast for 2012, according to visiting IMF managing director Christine Lagarde.
Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s recent admission of moral turpitude brought forth two strains of thought for me. The first is how the powerful males on this planet can just shrug off their misdemeanors. The second is how two of our past presidents not only were excused for their moral lapses but ended up being idolized by some of our kabayan.
The United States and Japan have the highest bills to pay from natural disasters, but Asia’s emerging giants — China, India and Indonesia — are proportionately at greater risk from them, a survey said on Thursday.
