# bworldfeed

Melissa Luz Lopez @meltlopez

Q1 current account narrower at a $208-M deficit vs $860-M deficit a year ago. Gillian Cortez @gmcortez_bworld President Duterte issued Executive Order 10 back in Dec. 2016 for the ConCom to finish the whole proposed Federal Constitution in 6 months. The ConCom was only formed on Feb. 19 of this year and expected to wrap up on Aug. 19. @bworldph

Jonathan G. Odom

@JonathanGOdom My OP-ED published today in The Straits Times (Singapore): “China’s Maritime Militia Threat” Available at: http://bit.ly/chinamilitia HumanProgress.org @HumanProgress The United Nations’ Millennium Development goal of halving global poverty by 2015 was met five years early. http://bit.ly/badnewsgood

TheEconomist @TheEconomist

When the distribution of income spreads apart, a society begins to malfunction, affecting the mental health of everyone living in it. http://bit.ly/inequalitycause

LSE Business Review

@LSEforBusiness In a recession, large firms are more likely than SMEs to resort to personnel cuts http://bit.ly/LSEbusiness

DealStreetAsia @DealStreetAsia

Surging losses make a good case for Ola-Uber merger http://bit.ly/olaubermerge ICTSD @ICTSD “# policy cooperation and coordination are more than ever of utmost importance to us,” said a joint statement from top economic agency officials and German Chancellor Angela Merkel after meetings in Berlin http://bit.ly/2ydnfkJ