...Rh Bill TOPIC: National Technology Policy Initiatives MAIN ISSUE STATEMENT: Are you in favour of the legalization of Reproductive Health bill in the Philippines? The Reproductive Health Bill, known as the RH Bill, are Philippine bills aiming to guarantee universal access to methods and information on contraception, fertility control, sexual education, and maternal care. The bills have become the center of a contentious national debate. There are presently two bills with the same goals: House Bill No. 4244 or An Act Providing for a Comprehensive Policy on Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health, and Population and Development, and For Other Purposes introduced by Albay 1st district Representative Edcel Lagman, and Senate Bill No. 2378 or An Act Providing For a National Policy on Reproductive Health and Population and Development introduced by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago. THESIS OR CONVICTION: Yes, COUNTER ARGUMENT: No, because SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS 1. No, because Philip Nitschke, MD, Director and Founder of Exit International, commented in his June 5, 2009 interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez titled "Euthanasia Sets Sail" that appeared in the National Review Online: "Over time the Hippocratic Oath has been modified on a number of occasions as some of its tenets became less and less acceptable. References to women not studying medicine and doctors not breaking the skin have been deleted. The much-quoted reference to 'do no harm' is also in need of explanation. Does...
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...Reproductive Health Bill became one of the crucial, sensitive and serious issues in our country. In fact it made a divisive chapter in our history where many individuals had an intense debate that led to partition. The President Aquino Administration pellucidly showed its persistent support to the said bill while other religious groups, particularly the Catholic Church, strongly opposed it. The Catholic Church is against the passage of the RH law which promotes both natural and artificial family planning methods. The Church only supports natural family planning. Filipino people had different feelings, reactions and point of view about this controversial matter. The government espouses this law because its main aims are to protect the health and lives of mothers, to save babies, to respond to the majority who want smaller families, to promote equity for poor families, to prevent induced abortions, to support and deploy more public midwives, nurses and doctors, to guarantee funding for and equal access to health facilities, to give accurate and positive sexuality education to young people, to reduce cancer deaths, and to save money that can be used for even more social funding. These are only few among the several advantages that people could obtain if this law will be implemented. Overall, it seeks to provide improved public access to natural and artificial family planning options, better maternal care, and youth education. Government sees it as one of the effective solutions...
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...RH BILL: To SUPPORT or To ABORT? “Love makes life “This saying proves that our opposite attracts are the reason behind why you, me and them are here in the whole world. Humans are responsible to make new generations. That’s why as we get older every day, new lives our being born. As a negative reaction, population growth also grows thicker every day. That’s why RH BILL or Reproductive Health Bill was created. Having aired it in the media, most Filipinos talked about it and became RH BILL, their vocabulary. Why? Because it’s stated that, this BILL is the way for a better future. It deals with the controlling of population on a certain country. It also promotes two methods of family planning, Chemical and Mechanical method. Under Chemical Method are the use of pills, injectables and spermicides. While the Mechanical Method are the use of condoms, IUD or Intrauterine Device, Vasectomy and Tubal Ligation. All of these are concern for the prevention of life formation and giving spaces for parents to nurture their child. Having the idea about this act, makes you decide where to stand. But, are these reasons enough? What are the consequences? For us teenagers were not very familiar with this topic, because it’s not in our stage to think of these thoughts or to put it into our minds. But, let’s accept the fact that were now only miles away in entering this stage, so we must have an initial idea on how to live with it. Besides knowing these things make us a wise man on choosing...
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...should be made carefully, with complete knowledge about advantages, disadvantages, and side effects of the various options. Important things to consider include the following: * Personal values * Ability to use a method correctly * How the method will affect sexual enjoyment * Financial factors * Status of a couple’s relationship * Prior experiences * Future plans The widespread use of contraceptives points to both an increased awareness of responsibility for contraception and options available. Understanding this concept, its work and how they compare in terms of benefits and disadvantages is necessary for successful counseling. Legal and ethical issues must also be considered when counseling clients. The arguments about contraception fall into several groups: * philosophical arguments such as the "natural law" argument * arguments based on different ideas of marriage, sex and the family * human rights arguments such as * 'procreative liberty' * a woman's right to control her own body * human rights arguments about mass birth control programs * arguments based on the good or bad consequences of birth control (consequentialism) * arguments about the environmental and resource problems caused by over-population * religious arguments Background of the Study The Reproductive Health Bill, popularly known as the RH Bill, is a...
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...implemented or not? Is it more of a solution, or a problem? * I think that approving divorcement here in the Philippines is a violation directly to God and is a very heavy sin should I say. Second, it’s the next stage if the “RH Bill” is to be approved which is another violation to God that I think those involved already know that. I don’t know why they are blind for I think they’re “CORRECTING A BAD THING WITH A BAD THING ALSO”. It should not be implemented for it shows only that couples can play and just quit and give up on a relationship which for me is immoral. It is very immoral to divorce for all those years, it only shows that people are okay to be willing to violate God’s law just so they can be followed. I’m sad because I might turn that sometime in the future; they should think of the effects to younger people who look up to them (People Involved) and might turn to them in the future. For me, its more of a problem and never a solution, nuff said. 2. Site the positive and negative effects of divorce to the couple and their children. *I don’t want to site positive effects because I’m against it and my brain won’t allow me to generate ideas that I didn’t imagine and realize so I will just give the negative effects, hope sir you’ll understand. The negative effects for me are as follows: - There will come a time that the children will be socially separated in time for they are scared or shy to talk about families because their family are broken. - The son/daughter will feel anguished...
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...Chapter I THE PROBLEM Introduction “Arming the youth with information,” one of the goals of the Reproductive Health Bill. In line with one of the two targets of Goal 5 - Improving Maternal Health - of the eight Millennium Development Goals which is achieving universal access to reproductive health by 2015. To achieve its goals, the bill provides for mandatory reproductive health education and that it be taught in "an age-appropriate manner... by adequately trained teachers starting from Grade 5 up to Fourth Year High School." As Iloilo Representative Janette Garin, author of the Reproductive Health Care Act says, “It’s very difficult to live in a society where we will be hypocritical and pretend that nothing is happening. But as early as grade 4 and 3, children, especially those in public schools, already have girlfriends and boyfriends.” Defined by United Nations (UN) on ICPD 1994, 'Reproductive health' is “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and...not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and its functions and processes.” Considering the fact that we are a Christian nation, some people and religious groups find this topic very sensitive to be discussed among youngsters. In this regard, Filipino mothers have the “you-will-learn-when-you-are-old-enough” attitude. As with this, the researchers have come up to a study that would determine the knowledge regarding reproductive health of the high...
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...Working Paper Series DOES SUBSIDY REMOVAL HURT THE POOR by Manson NWAFOR Kannayo OGUJIUBA Robert ASOGWA Les Cahiers du SISERA – 2006 / 2 AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ECONOMICS (AIAE) DOES SUBSIDY REMOVAL HURT THE POOR by Manson NWAFOR1 Kannayo OGUJIUBA Robert ASOGWA This research was undertaken with the financial support of the United States Agency International Development (USAID) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada February 2006 1 Corresponding author. Contact is: mansonnwafor@yahoo.com AVANT-PROPOS Le Secrétariat d’Appui Institutionnel à la Recherche Économique en Afrique (SISERA) a pour mission de faciliter l’émergence de centres d’excellence en recherche économique en Afrique subsaharienne et de les aider à jouer un rôle effectif dans le processus d’élaboration des politiques économiques. Un des objectifs du Secrétariat est d’aider les centres à disséminer les résultats de leurs travaux de recherche. Les Cahiers du SISERA ont donc été créés pour permettre une meilleure diffusion des travaux de recherche des Institutions partenaires du Secrétariat. La présente édition des Cahiers du SISERA est consacrée à diffusion des résultats des études conduites par six Institutions partenaires du SISERA dans le cadre du programme de formation et de recherche en économie dénommé « Stratégies et analyses pour le développement et l’accès à la croissance (SAGA) » mis en place par l’USAID et administré par SISERA. L’objet de ce programme...
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...ECONOMICS & STRATEGY THE JSK STRATEGIST June 07, 2010 Federal Budget 2011: Affordability Vs. Sustainability!! A Blurry Hype Or A Leap Of Faith?? Executive Summary At the national front, government remained excessively occupied with budgetary measures to be adopted in the finance bill, that were announced on June 5th. Capital market participants and investors, in anticipation, distanced away from large exposures as federal budget closed in, with implementation of Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on stock market transactions. Nationwide implementation Value Added Tax (VAT) regime at 15% has been deferred by three months in order to develop a productive framework for enforcement and collection mechanisms. Addressing IMF’s concerns, the removal of subsidies and a raise in power tariff by 6%, in addition to the expansion of country’s tax base remained core issues in recent budget announcements. Economic Recovery: Exceeds Expectations! Federal government revised GDP growth levels to 4.5% from a low of 4.1% sighting better than expected economic recovery for FY2010. Expansion in large scale manufacturing and growth in services sector would be the key factors contributing to economic growth with 5.6% share of manufacturing, 4.6% for services and 3.8% for agriculture sector. Also, the crippling power sector with the introduction of costly rental power plants is expected to provide significant relief to the industrial sector. Additionally, government is making all out efforts to curtail...
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...Chapter 17 Multinational Financial Management Learning Objectives After reading this chapter, students should be able to: ◆ Define the term “multinational corporation” and identify 7 primary reasons why firms go international. ◆ List 5 major factors that distinguish financial management in firms operating entirely within a single country from those that operate in several different countries. ◆ Briefly explain the following terms: international monetary system, exchange rate, spot exchange rate, forward exchange rate, fixed exchange rate, floating exchange rate, devaluation/revaluation of a currency, depreciation/appreciation of a currency, soft currency, and hard currency. ◆ Identify the different types of exchange rate systems. ◆ Distinguish between direct and indirect quotations, and American and European term quotations, and calculate cross rates between any two currencies. ◆ Differentiate between spot and forward rates, and explain what it means for a forward currency to sell at a discount or premium. ◆ Briefly explain the concept of interest rate parity and write the corresponding equation. ◆ Briefly explain the concept of purchasing power parity and write the corresponding equation. ◆ Explain the implications of relative inflation rates, or rates of inflation in foreign countries compared with that in the home country, on interest rates, exchange rates, and on multinational financial decisions. ◆ Distinguish between foreign...
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...Monetary Policy Statement Team Chief Advisor: Atiur Rahman, PhD, Governor Policy Advisors: Md. Abul Quasem, Deputy Governor Abu Hena Mohd. Razee Hassan, Deputy Governor S.K. Sur Chowdhury, Deputy Governor Nazneen Sultana, Deputy Governor Allah Malik Kazemi, Change Management Advisor Faisal Ahmed, PhD, Senior Economic Advisor Lead Author: Biru Paksha Paul, PhD, Chief Economist Analysts and Contributors: Md. Akhtaruzzaman, PhD, Economic Advisor Begum Sultana Razia, GM, Chief Economist’s Unit (CEU) Md. Abdur Rouf, GM, Monetary Policy Department (MPD) Md. Ezazul Islam, PhD, DGM, CEU Md. Abdul Kayum, DGM, MPD Forecasting and Support Team: Dr. Sayera Younus, DGM, MPD Mahmud Salahuddin Naser, DGM, CEU Muhammad Amir Hossain, PhD, DGM, SD Md. Habibour Rahman, JD, CEU Md. Abdul Karim, JD, MPD Md. Omor Faruq, JD, MPD Syeda Ishrat Jahan, JD, CEU Khan Md. Saidjada, JD, CEU Rubana Hassan, JD, MPD Bushra Khanam Luna, DD, CEU Md. Ahsan Ullah, DD, MPD Coverist: Tariq Aziz, AD, DCP Monetary Policy Statement January-June 2016 Monetary Policy Department and Chief Economist’s Unit Bangladesh Bank www.bb.org.bd Table of Contents Highlights ................................................................................................ 1 Core Objectives ...................................................................................... 3 Global Developments ........................................................................... 3 Economic Growth...
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...Monetary Policy Statement Team Chief Advisor: Atiur Rahman, PhD, Governor Policy Advisors: Md. Abul Quasem, Deputy Governor Abu Hena Mohd. Razee Hassan, Deputy Governor S.K. Sur Chowdhury, Deputy Governor Nazneen Sultana, Deputy Governor Allah Malik Kazemi, Change Management Advisor Faisal Ahmed, PhD, Senior Economic Advisor Lead Author: Biru Paksha Paul, PhD, Chief Economist Analysts and Contributors: Md. Akhtaruzzaman, PhD, Economic Advisor Begum Sultana Razia, GM, Chief Economist’s Unit (CEU) Md. Abdur Rouf, GM, Monetary Policy Department (MPD) Md. Ezazul Islam, PhD, DGM, CEU Md. Abdul Kayum, DGM, MPD Forecasting and Support Team: Dr. Sayera Younus, DGM, MPD Mahmud Salahuddin Naser, DGM, CEU Muhammad Amir Hossain, PhD, DGM, SD Md. Habibour Rahman, JD, CEU Md. Abdul Karim, JD, MPD Md. Omor Faruq, JD, MPD Syeda Ishrat Jahan, JD, CEU Khan Md. Saidjada, JD, CEU Rubana Hassan, JD, MPD Bushra Khanam Luna, DD, CEU Md. Ahsan Ullah, DD, MPD Coverist: Tariq Aziz, AD, DCP Monetary Policy Statement January-June 2016 Monetary Policy Department and Chief Economist’s Unit Bangladesh Bank www.bb.org.bd Table of Contents Highlights ................................................................................................ 1 Core Objectives ...................................................................................... 3 Global Developments ........................................................................... 3 Economic Growth...
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...individual. 1.1 Background of the Study The country’s current population is estimated at 93 million people (NSO Annual Report: 2010) where about 65 percent are living in urban area and experience poverty due to the usual family practice of giving birth. Pro-RH Bill lawmakers have presented the effective measures to control the growing population and provided alternative ways to maintain reproductive health and plausible actions to that program. Amidst all the programs, poor families are seen and cannot sustain the basic necessities of their children and depriving them from enjoying the fullness what is due to for the kids. Young women whose ages range from 14-25 often experience fast hormonal secretions that usually associated with active and rapid biotic potential. Early sexual maturity becomes a primordial factor for fertility and early teenage pregnancy. This then is the scenario that strive the researchers to conduct experiment that provide information on the use of Alstonia Scholaris as a viable material for controlling population. 1.2 Statement of the Problem The project undertaken by the researchers on the Alstonia Scholaris extract as applied to “rabbit” sought to answer the following questions: 1. What is the effect of Alstonia scholaris extract on the biotic potential of “Oryctolagus Cuniculus”? 2. How effective is the use of Alstonia Scholaris extract to the life of “Oryctolagus Cuniculus” in terms of: a. antifertility b. implantation/inhibitory of hormonal...
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...BANK OF UGANDA QUARTERLY ECONOMIC REPORT December 2012 1 | BANK OF UGANDA TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 OVERVIEW............................................................................................................................ 3 2 OUTPUT ................................................................................................................................ 5 3 AGGREGATE DEMAND ..................................................................................................... 9 4 MONEY AND ASSET PRICES ............................................................................................ 9 5 DOMESTIC FINANCIAL SECTOR .................................................................................. 17 6 THE EXTERNAL SECTOR ............................................................................................... 17 7 COSTS AND PRICES .......................................................................................................... 22 8 CONCLUSION ..................................................................................................................... 34 2 OVERVIEW | BANK OF UGANDA 1 i OVERVIEW trade deficit, which improved over the quarter as export growth exceeded that in imports. iv With a much faster decline in than earlier projected and This report reviews the monetary policy actions and the domestic and global economic developments in the quarter ending June 2012. The report also provides an economic outlook...
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...Introduction When a teenage girl gets pregnant, this phenomenon is called teenage pregnancy. Teenage pregnancy is treated differently in many cultures. A great number of countries, mostly in Asia treat it like a regular thing due to their traditions and peculiarities of the culture. But the Western civilization treats teenage pregnancy like a negative phenomenon, because young people are supposed to study and have normal years of life, without burden and big problems. Unfortunately, teenage pregnancy is quite a frequent thing. Every day we can hear about the cases when a 15-year-old girl has got pregnant and parents do not know what to do. Teenagers are too young to be allowed to get married, and a child commonly lives in single parent family (very often it is difficult to identify the father of the baby). The most common decision of the teenagers and their parents is to get rid of pregnancy. Abortion in such a young age is quite a regular thing nowadays, because a baby is a great responsibility and one can not study and work having it. On the other hand abortion influences the girl’s body badly and it is the next problem. So, the topic is extremely urgent in modern society and nearly every student is asked to prepare a research paper on teenage pregnancy and analyze the problem deeply. Students have to spend much time to discover some cultural aspects and points of view towards teenage pregnancy of different people of the world. They have to brainstorm good methods and...
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...BOFIT Discussion Papers 15 • 2011 John Knight and Wei Wang China's macroeconomic imbalances: Causes and consequences Bank of Finland, BOFIT Institute for Economies in Transition BOFIT Discussion Papers Editor-in-Chief Laura Solanko BOFIT Discussion Papers 15/2011 20.06.2011 John Knight and Wei Wang: China's macroeconomic imbalances: Causes and consequences ISBN 978-952-462-711-5 ISSN 1456-5889 (online) This paper can be downloaded without charge from http://www.bof.fi/bofit. Suomen Pankki Helsinki 2011 BOFIT- Institute for Economies in Transition Bank of Finland BOFIT Discussion Papers 15/ 2011 Contents Abstract ................................................................................................................................ iii Tiivistelmä ........................................................................................................................... iv 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 1 2. China’s macroeconomic imbalances ................................................................................. 2 3. China’s external imbalance ............................................................................................. 14 4. Reviewing the export surplus .......................................................................................... 22 5. The external surplus and foreign exchange reserves .......
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