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Keeping Pump Prices Competitive: CRC Consultants Develop a Market Study on the Refined Petroleum Industry for the Philippine Competition Commission

By |August 3rd, 2021|Energy Industry, Research Findings, Transportation and Logistics|

CRC in the Energy Sector — If there’s any industry where it’s clear just how important competition is for consumers’ wallets, it’s the oil products industry. So when the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) wanted to take a closer look at the inner workings of the “downstream petroleum industry,” a team of consultants from CRC, headed ... continue reading

CRC Paper Highlights the Owner-Driven Construction (ODC) Segment as an Untapped Housing Sector Market

By |July 7th, 2021|CRC Communications, CRC Publications, Infrastructure and Industry, Research Findings, Trends|

CRC in Infrastructure and Industry -- The Philippine construction industry isn’t tapping a market which could be worth at least PhP 641 Billion, say CRC consultants Dr. Winston Conrad B. Padojinog and Erica Myra P. Yap in a study commissioned by Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter in 2020. According to the ... continue reading

Villegas says co-operatives, smallholder consolidation schemes could be keys to efficient agricultural production

By |February 4th, 2021|CRC Events, CRC International Investor Roadshows, Food and Agribusiness, News, Research Findings, Social Economics, Trends, University News|

Pasig City -- If the Philippines wants its agricultural production to be efficient, then it needs to find more imaginative ways of helping the Philippines’ many small farmowners to work together, says eminent Filipino economist Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas in a recently released video from the Center for Research and Communication, where he answered audience ... continue reading

CRC partners with Habitat for Humanity Philippines to host “BAHAYnihan: Rising Together through Housing”

By |October 22nd, 2020|CRC Communications, CRC Events, Infrastructure and Industry, News, Partnership Events, Partnerships, Research Findings, Trends|

Pasig City -- Having an adequate home is now, more than ever, a matter of life and death. In celebration of World Habitat Day and as part of Urban October, the Center for Research and Communication, in partnership with Habitat for Humanity Philippines and Habitat’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter (TCIS),  are hosting “BAHAYnihan: Rising ... continue reading

Discussion of Research Updates for “The Pueblos of Panay”

By |August 17th, 2020|CRC Events, CRCFI Research Fund, Ignite AsiaPacific, IGNITE AsiaPacific Discussion Series, News, Research Findings, University News|

Editor's note: Dr. Paul A. Dumol’s research update last July 30, titled “The Pueblos of Panay: Examining Their foundation Dates,” has been very fruitful in terms of findings, so there are three groups of content currently up on the CRC website.  This page contains a discussion, written by the research team, about the findings of ... continue reading

VIDEO — CRC online research update on the rise of “The Pueblos of Panay”, 30 July 2020

By |August 16th, 2020|CRC Events, CRCFI Research Fund, Ignite AsiaPacific, IGNITE AsiaPacific Discussion Series, News, Research Findings, University News|

Ortigas, Pasig -- For a little over an hour last July 30, 2020, viewers from at least four continents came together and focused their attention on Panay island. Specifically, they paid attention to the history of the founding of the Spanish Colonial era Pueblos of Panay, and the online research update of Dr. Paul A. ... continue reading

Research Update: Foundation Dates for “The Pueblos of Panay”

By |August 15th, 2020|CRC Events, CRCFI Research Fund, Ignite AsiaPacific, IGNITE AsiaPacific Discussion Series, Research Findings, University News|

Editor's note: Dr. Paul A. Dumol’s research update last July 30, titled “The Pueblos of Panay: Examining Their foundation Dates,” has been very fruitful in terms of findings, so there are three groups of content currently up on the CRC website. The video for the webcast event, captured with the help of the UA&P Department ... continue reading

“A CELEBRATED FIRST”: Notes on the International Cooperative Alliance – Asia Pacific’s (ICA-AP) Webinar on Waking the Asian Pacific Cooperative Potential

By |August 4th, 2020|CRC Events, CRC Publications, News, Professorial Chairs, Research Findings, Social Economics, Trends, University News|

ORTIGAS, Pasig -- Last July 2, 2020, the International Cooperative Alliance Asia Pacific (ICA-AP) hosted a webinar on “Waking the Asian Pacific Cooperative Potential” which extensively discussed the background and vision of the newly published book of the same title. The webinar was moderated by ICA-AP Regional Director Mr. Balu Iyer, and was attended by ... continue reading

“The Pueblos of Panay” — CRC hosts online research update on the rise of the Philippines’ first civic communities

By |July 14th, 2020|CRC Events, CRCFI Research Fund, Research Findings, University News, Webinars|

Ortigas, Pasig -- How did villages scattered on different islands come to regard themselves as forming a single community embracing all the islands we now call “the Philippines”? A new study by Dr. Paul A. Dumol, under a grant from the Center for Research and Communication Foundation Research Fund, reexamines the history of the ties ... continue reading

Upcoming ICA-AP webinar highlights newly published book “Waking the Asian Pacific Cooperative Potential”

By |July 1st, 2020|CRC Events, CRC Publications, News, Professorial Chairs, Research Findings, Social Economics, Trends, University News|

ORTIGAS, Pasig —  If you’re interested in celebrating and replicating the successes of the co-operative movement in the Asia Pacific Region, then you already know about the release early last month of the new book “Waking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential,” which focuses on case studies of two Co-operatives in the Philippines and compares their ... continue reading