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My photo on ODI homepage

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Hi. the photo I took of Mr Manolito A. Duran (here on  Flickr) on Silliman beach in Dumaguete (Philippines), is being used to day on ODI home page linked to a just published toolkit on Navigating Political Economy Analysis. Have a look: http://www.odi.org.uk/ 

Venla’s Valentine Day

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It is Valentine Day here in the Philippines. It is a big day for the people in this country. It is afternoon. My daughter Venla is at home from school. Teachers spending time in their families as this is very much a family day. They are probably getting ready to go out to eat tonight. The busiest day of the year for the restaurants in Dumaguete, a restaurant owner told me once. We are in the garden. Sun is […]

A surfer into the sunset in Lembongan island

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Sunsets in Lembongan island (Bali), a photo by Arnaldo Pellini on Flickr. I was in Lembongan island east of Bali. a great sunset. I walked into the sea weed garden where during the low tide sea weed farmers work. The tide was rising as the sunset time approached. I wanted to take the a picture of the canal that seemed to lead into the sun when this surfer appeared out of nowhere. He was walking […]

Moonrise in Dumaguete

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  I was driving the car back home from the Robison mall. I decided to take a short cut and avoid the centre of the city. I passed on the bridge near the Chinese pagoda where the view of the sea is usually really nice. That night was even better. The moon had just risen. I stopped the car and luckily had my camera with me.

L’alluvione del tifone Sendong a Dumaguete

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Non sono mai stato prima in una zona colpita da un disastro naturale. Ieri ho preso la bici e sono andato verso le colline a ovest di Dumaguete, una delle zone colpite dalle inondazioni provocate dal tifone Sendong il 17. Dicembre scorso.  Ho messo delle foto in Flickr a questo indirizzo: . Parto da casa, quartiere Batayan e prendo Rovira Road. Passo la National Road e proseguo lungo la strada che va verso Valencia. Voglio […]

Season Greetings from the Philippines

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At times it is possible to find little gems in the little-screen-inflight-movie-world. The other day, while flying to Sydney, I watched Another Earth. It tells the story of an approaching planet which is the exact copy of our Earth. The planet is like a second moon and can be seen up in the sky. Since it is a copy of our planet, it is lived by copies of us (other us) whom we could eventually […]

Books

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Nice coincidence here in Dumaguete. The other night I put in alphabetical order the many books I have at home. I first divided them by language: Italian section, English and then Finnish. Then I ordered them alphabetically: first the Italian and then the ones in English. I also decided to mix fiction books with those of development economics and political economy because too many categories usually confuse. The books in Finnish do not have to […]