Philippine Music Kulintang Kulintang refers to a racked gong chime instrument played in the southern islands of the Philippines‚ along with its varied accompanying ensembles. Percussive bossed gong ensembles without a melodical gong rack‚ known as Agung‚ are played throughout most of the islands by indigenous groups (such as the Mangyan‚ Lumad‚ Batak‚ Tagbanwa and Aeta) as well as historically by low-land groups such as the Bisaya‚ Bicol and Tagalog‚ yet the kulintang ensembles themselves are only
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POVERTY IN THE PHILIPPINES During the 1990s‚ the Philippines made significant progress in fighting poverty. According to the Family Income and Expenditure Survey of 1997‚ poverty incidence fell from 49.3% of total population in 1985 to 40.6% in 1994 and 36.8% in 1997. According to an ADB study conducted by Ernie Pernia and Arsenio Balisacan‚ however‚ the decline in poverty rates did nothing to improve the country’s notoriously inequitable income distribution. Despite the more-or-less sustained
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THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES BOOK I GENERAL PROVISIONS TITLE ONE. - BASIC PRINCIPLES CHAPTER 1. - THE CODE‚ POLICY AND APPLICATION SECTION 1. Title. - This Act shall be known and cited as the "Local Government Code of 1991". SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. - (a) It is hereby declared the policy of the State that the territorial and political subdivisions of the State shall enjoy genuine and meaningful local autonomy to enable them to attain their fullest development
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Some of the conquests of the Spanish on the Native Indians were brutal. While most conquistadors and Spanish people treated the Indians badly‚ one names Las Casas did not. He defended them. Why My Congressman/Congresswoman Matters to Me. Our congressmen and congresswomen are some of the most important parts of our government. Normally‚ when one thinks of members of congress‚ it seems as though the members are nothing but a group of people arguing from different political
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309-328 Received: 9 September 2011. UDC 338.124.4(460) DOI: 10.2298/PAN1103309C Original scientific paper Francisco Carballo-Cruz NIPE and School of Economics and Business‚ University of Minho‚ Portugal Causes and Consequences of the Spanish Economic Crisis: Why the Recovery is Taken so Long? Summary: Spain is currently facing its worst crisis in the last fifty years. The crisis began as an extension of the international financial crisis‚ but the internal imbalances accumulated in the
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Profile of the Philippians 1.1.0 Trade Since independence in the 1980’s ‚ the Philippines have opened up their economy to foreign markets‚ and established a network of free trade agreements with several countries . They have come along way in regards to trade and trade liberalisation. However‚ as will be shown the Philippians still have along way to go with balancing exports and imports and reducing government regulations that impinge on trade. 1.1.1 Main Exports and Imports As a newly
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Project in Philippine history Titled : Philippine Government in Transition GROUP 2 BPA1-B Datu is the title for chiefs‚ sovereign princes‚ and monarchs in the Visayas andMindanao Regions of the Philippines. Together with Lakan (Luzon)‚ Apo in Central and Northern Luzon‚ Sultan and Rajah‚ they are titles used for native royalty
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2 Is there a Philippine Public Administration: A Critique This paper is a critique to the articles of Raul P. de Guzman and Onofre D. Corpus which were both published in 1986‚ at the height of the People Power and at the time when there was still no concrete system of public administration to talk about. The two authors wrote about the same thing but presented different and independent justification whether or not there is a Philippine public administration. The Philippine Constitution and
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First Phase of the Philippine Revolution Phase 1: Philippines vs. Spain 1896-1898 Filipino Leaders: * Andres Bonifacio (Katipunan) * Emilio Aguinaldo * Baldomero Aguinaldo * Emilio Jacinto * Mariano Llanera * Mariano Alvarez * Candido Tirona Enemies: * Governor General Ramon Blanco * Camilo de Polavieja * Fernando Primo de Rivera Goals and Objectives of the 1st Phase Leaders: * expulsion of the friars and the return to the Filipinos of the
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Salvadorian Spanish Spanish is spoken in different countries around the world. In every region there is a dialect from the main language. Here we are to explain a bit about the Spanish spoken in the Central American county of El Salvador. Salvadoran Spanish is geographically defined as the form of Spanish spoken in the country of El Salvador in Central America. El Salvador is the only country in North and Central America to use the term Castellano or Castilian as oppose to Spanish or Español
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