Making progress on the BSP-DLSU MOU

2025-01-08

Background

Who are we?

We are from the Carlos L. Tiu School of Economics.

  1. Andrew Adrian Pua: Associate Professor
  2. Lawrence B. Dacuycuy: Full Professor, formerly PES President
  3. Ma. Isabel Fernandez: Assistant Professorial Lecturer, formerly Research Associate at Innovations for Poverty Action

Short-term goals

  • To collaborate with BSP on joint sessions at conferences

    • Recent 62nd PES was a successful first step.
  • To lay the foundations for name recall

    • Invited some BSP personnel to Dr. Tullao’s event celebrating his research
  • To immediately move past any misunderstanding that may be disrupting the relationship between BSP and DLSU

    • Our meeting today is good progress in this direction.

Medium-term goals

  • To deepen collaboration on joint sessions at conferences, seminars, and workshops

    • To give feedback to papers written by BSP staff (free reading!)
    • Can this be the start of writing papers together?
  • To start identifying high-functioning teams by trial and error

    • DLSU personnel limited ultimately by the heavy teaching load and competing consultancy interests