Background Poverty and inequality have been recurrent challenges in the Philippines and have again come to the fore in the wake of the current global financial crisis and rising food‚ fuel‚ and commodity prices experienced in 2008. he proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined very slowly and unevenly in the past four decades‚ and poverty reduction has been much slower than in neighboring countries such as the People’s Republic of China (PRC)‚ Indonesia‚ hailand‚
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President | Term | Policies | Contributions | | | | Positive | Negative | 1. Emilio Aguinaldo | 1898-1901 | * Fiscal Reform * Education Initiative * Local government reorganization * Constitutional Amendments * Visayan Federation | | | 2. Manuel L. Quezon | 1935-1944 | | | | 3. Jose P. Laurel | 1943-1945 | | | | 4. Sergio S. Osmeña | 1944-1946 | | | | 5. Manuel A. Roxas | 1946-1948 | | | | 6. Elpidio R. Quirino | 1948-1953 | | | |
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more employees will probably be hired. When this occurs‚ it is useful to explicitly look at how tasks can be allocated across employees in a systematic way. As the company grows still larger‚ it is often useful to begin organizing the company into departments. In many cases‚ a company’s early moves overseas involve reacting to an apparently random or unexpected overseas business opportunity. At first‚ such business may be conducted anywhere in the organization on an ad hoc basis. As a company extends
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2 Industrial Agglomeration in the Philippines Mari-Len Reyes-Macasaquit* The Philippine Institute for Development Studies‚ the Philippines Abstract The economic reform process in the Philippines was accelerated in the 1980s and 1990s. The reforms were found to have yielded positive results in terms of the nature of industrial agglomeration in the country as this was found to have occurred in the 1990s based on the results of the survey and econometrics analyses. The latter also identified the
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PHILIPPINES UNEMPLOYMENT RATE Unemployment Rate in Philippines increased to 7.50 percent in the first quarter of 2013 from 7.10 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012. Unemployment Rate in Philippines is reported by the The National Statistics Office (NSO). Philippines Unemployment Rate averaged 9.09 Percent from 1994 until 2013‚ reaching an all time high of 13.90 Percent in March of 2002 and a record low of 6.30 Percent in September of 2007. In Philippines‚ the unemployment rate measures the number
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Are you a filipino? First and foremost‚ you have to study and understand the history of the philippines. They won’t tell you the whys and the hows in history book. Like any other history‚ you have to find out and understand their cultures beofre we can pas any judgement on them. 1. Philippines consist of about 7100 islands. The inhabitants of the Philippines consist of different races with different languages. Geographical and geological factor are some of the reason why the filipinos don’t have
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Nursing Education Update: Nursing Education the Philippines will never be the same again. Nursing‚ as a course in college‚ may no longer be as attractive as before starting this school year. In my post “New Philippine Nursing Curriculum and Opposing Views”‚ the Philippine Nursing Curriculum has dramatically changed since the Commission on Higher Education’s issuance of CHED Memorandum Order (MO) No. 5‚ series of 2008 otherwise known as “Policies and Standards for Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program”
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Philippines Economics Table of contents 1. General Information 2. Agrarian Economy 3. Industrial Economy 4. Services Industries 5. Conclusion 1. General information The Philippines are located in Southeast Asia in the Western Pacific Ocean. 7‚107 Islands are part of the republic. The islands are divided into three major groups: Luzon‚ Visayas‚ and Mindanao. The South China Sea defines its western borders and the Pacific Ocean its eastern limits. The country-
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Philippines has displaced Indonesia as Asean economic leader -- S&P I consider this as a good news for us Filipinos. We may not feel the economic growth for now but it’s actually a good thing that we have indicators of how well or poor our economy is doing. This article only means that we will now be able attract more investors to invest in the Philippines. More foreign investors means more job opportunities just like jobs for construction workers. And yes‚ it is not permanent but if this will
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RIGIN OF THE PHILIPPINES It is believed that before the end of the Ice Age‚ about 70‚000‚000 years ago‚ our country was connected to the mainland of Asia by long strips of land. These strips of land served as land bridges. It was said that people in the mainland could travel by land to the Philippines without crossing the sea. After the Ice Age‚ high tide occurred. Large blocks of ice melted. It was during this high tide that the land bridges submerged in water. The Philippines was then separated
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