The Philippines has a very low cost of living. The peso has significantly lost much of its value since the Asian Financial Crisis but over the past few years the country is getting back on its feet. The Philippine economy ranks 47th worldwide with a total GDP of over 120 billion euros. Expatriates will find living in the country very cheap compared to the United Kingdom. The unemployment rate is not tremendously high but poverty may have been rampant due to overpopulation. The Philippines is the
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Ferdinand Magellan‚ the Portuguese navigator explored the Philippines in 1521. Twenty-one years later‚ a Spanish exploration party named the group of islands in honor of Philip II of Spain. Spain retained possession of the islands for the next 350 years. The Treaty of Paris ceded the Philippines to the U.S. in 1899 after the Spanish-American War. Meanwhile‚ the Filipinos‚ led by Emilio Aguinaldo‚ had declared their independence. They initiated guerrilla warfare against U.S. troops that persisted
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LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT Lipsmacker‚ an American lip balm brand‚ has massive business potential in the Philippines. It specializes on its special flavored lip balms ranging from a wide array of flavors such Strawberry Banana and M&M ’s. The brand has an existing demand in the Philippine Market‚ as evidenced by online forum and blog site posts. Also‚ no Philippine cosmetic brand currently provides the same product offerings. Catering to a niche tweenager market is not entirely new. Various
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IBAN TRADITIONAL CLOTHING AND ATTIRE SIRAT : THE FORGOTTEN IBAN ATTIRE The loincloths was once of the most basic markers of cultural identity‚ is now distinctively ignored among modern Ibans. Even the so called expert such as the anthropologists give a word or two regarding it‚ then pass on to other matters. The writers on customs seems to forgot the topics altogether. For as the Dutchman Karl Martin said of the Sulawesi loincloth a hundred years ago‚ “once it’s on it’s hard to figure out how
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION For more than years‚ Philippine is saddled with huge challenges on how to find a concrete strategy to cope up economic depression‚ mainly the main reason that analysts could see is the drastic population density that leads to various implications like poverty (the main symptoms of having overpopulation and every country’s problem that almost all cannot resolved)‚ poor governance that results rampant corruption from public officials‚ colonial mentality also blocks progression
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industrialized economy and basically comprises of textiles‚ chemicals‚ food processing‚ the agricultural sector and various other industries. It is a surprising fact that Pakistan’s economy is the 27th largest growing economy in the world when measured in terms of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). The economy has suffered from political instability‚ rising population growth rate and a war of words with the neighboring country India which has proved to be very costly for Pakistan’s economy. There is worldwide
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The Republic of the Philippines‚ an island nation located in the Malay archipelago in Southeast Asia‚ comprising of 7‚107 islands‚ collectively known as Philippine Archipelago‚ has a total area of nearly 300‚000 square kilometers to it’s credit. The country‚ named "Las Islas Felipinas" after King Philip II of Spain‚ fell prey to Spanish colonialism in 1565. The colonial rule lasted for three long centuries and ended after Philippine Revolution of 1896. But independence‚ the most prized political
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PHILIPPINES (FILIPINO) CULTURAL AND FOLK DANCES PHILIPPINES (FILIPINO) CULTURAL AND FOLK DANCES INTRODUCTION AND DANCES Countries in the world have their own cultures made more colorful‚ beautiful and vibrant because of Folk Dances that are reflection of who they are. In the east‚ the Chinese have their symbolic Dragon Dance‚ the Japanese have the ancestral dance Bon Odori. In the west the Americans have their Square Dance. On the other hand‚ the Philippines will not be left behind. "The Pearl
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Poverty in the Philippines I wrote this piece as a way to share the negative aspects of poverty with the public‚ and hopefully turn them against it. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. By the time one has finished reading that sentence‚ a child would have died from poverty-related causes‚ That’s a life every 3.5 seconds –on average. Poverty affects everyone; globally‚ regionally‚ and locally. To be living in poverty is a horrible state to be in‚ for the individual will
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What is TK? Traditional Knowledge (TK) or Indigenous Knowledge (IK) or Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) and local knowledge E is defined as knowledge and values which have been acquired through experience‚ observation‚ from the land or from spiritual teachings‚ and handed down from one generation to another What Does TK Include? Traditional knowledge includes types of knowledge related to various categories like Knowledge of plants and animals and their properties Minerals and soils
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