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Results, impact? DBM, COA figures clash
IN ITS 2012 Annual Financial Report for National Government, the Commission on Audit (COA) said regular appropriation for programmed activities of the departments and agencies of…
By Malou Mangahas·July 22, 2014
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Framing DAP
THE STORY of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) has been debated using various frames. President Benigno S. Aquino III has offered the “right vs. wrong” frame, saying that…
By Adminnewspack·July 22, 2014
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Funds freed in a rush, projects yield slow results
THE GOOD, the bad, and the dead combine, in terms of projects and activities, under the Aquino administration’s Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), which is now wreaking havoc…
By Malou Mangahas·July 21, 2014
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P32B not on GAA
AT LEAST P32.23 billion of taxpayers’ money had been released under the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) for projects and activities that had no funding cover or were not…
By Adminnewspack·July 21, 2014
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A maze of good, bad, open, opaque projects
“Good intentions are not good enough.” That, according to Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio ‘Babes’ Singson, is the lesson from the sorry episode that was the…
By Malou Mangahas·July 20, 2014
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The story of DAP
IT TOOK a peeved senator, who was being accused of corruption, for the public to be inadvertently introduced to what is now known as DAP or the Disbursement Acceleration Program.
By Rowena F Caronan·July 20, 2014
