social stability and cohesion. KEYWORDS: Inequality, Economic Growth, Poverty, Social Mobility, Political Cohesion, Gender I. INTRODUCTION In relation to the worldwide gender gap, in so far as inequality also exist in political imbalance in the Philippines distinguished through the partisan move of a party, wherein, such intent, policies and term of their advocacy is their ultimate road map and reluctantly to engage in the opponent’s adherence. Colonial mindset, attributable to the Spanish era wherein
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The Philippines A Century Hence PART ONE The first part of the essay outlines briefly how the Spanish colonization have changed the cultural landscape of the Filipino people and how well those people managed to indoctrinate our forebears. In the latter part of the essay where events turned to favour Filipinos’ plight much of the work revolved on the effaceable influence of the Spaniards on our race. The formidable diminution of liberty and despotic leadership have ceased to effect cooperation
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In 1889, a well-known Manila businessman, Don Enrique María Barretto de Ycaza y Esteban, applied for a royal grant from Spain to establish a brewery in the Philippines. He was awarded the grant for a period of twenty years. On September 29, 1890 (Michaelmas, or the feast day of Saint Michael the Archangel), La Fábrica de Cerveza de San Miguel was declared open for business. Located at 6 Calzada de Malacañang(later called Calle Avilés), the brewery took its name from its neighbourhood, the arrabal(suburb
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Day/Time 1.0 Article Summary The article by GMANews.TV, titled “Rice prices to drop by mid-March, NFA says” was posted on 10 February 2009. It reports consumers’ reaction to high prices of commercial rice in the Philippines by queuing for subsidised rice from National Food Authority (NFA) stores. 2.0 Introduction
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and shopping mall operator in the Philippines. He earned his Associate of Arts degree in Commercial Studies at Far Eastern University in 1950. Acknowledged as the country’s "Retail King," he has come a long way from the modest shoe store he set up in Quiapo in 1946, to become Asia's biggest shopping mall operator with over 30 malls throughout the Philippines. He is the Philippines' richest man, gaining 1.4 billion dollars in 2007, amid the global financial crisis. The huge gain was due to his holding
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Philippine mangrove forests play a highly specialized and intricate role in tropical coastal ecosystems. Mangroves are characterized by a species of tree that have adapted to grow in tidal flats, bordering the ocean. Mangroves thrive in the salty coastal water, where other plant species would die. Aquaculture practices in the Philippines have had negative impacts on mangrove tracts, resulting in more than 337 000 hectares lost since 1925 (Samson and Rollon, 2008). The removal of mangroves for aquaculture
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Financial Issues…………………………………………………………………………..........6 Marketing Issues………………………………………………………………………............6 Supporting Arguments……………………………………………………………………………7 Industries Analysis…………………………………………………………………………….7 Fast Food Industry………………………………………………………………………… 7 Porter’s 5 forces model for JFC…………………………………………………………….....8 Firm Analysis………………………………………………………………………………….8 Alternatives Strategies…………………………………………………………………………...10 Choosing the Right Strategy……………………………………………………………
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Clarifications on Issues Related to Humanae Vitae and the Reproductive "Health" Bill in Philippine Congress. Rev. Fr. Gregory D. Gaston, STD (This primer was written for Avenues, the Journal of San Carlos Seminary Graduate School of Theology. Copyright © 2008 by the author, a priest of the Archdiocese of Manila and Professor of the Graduate School of Theology of San Carlos Seminary in Makati City, Philippines. For related topics, please visit www.safe.ph.) |MISCONCEP-TIONS |CLARIFICATIONS
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networking site about “It’s more FUN in the Philippines”, the new Slogan of the Department of Tourism (DOT) in 2012 which replaced the long-running slogan, “WOW Philippines”. Observers notes, however whether Filipinos, who posted their own efforts or ideas for the slogan in their Faceboook and twitter, communicated the right audience as the DOT attempted to make a viral people’s campaign that aimed to bring travellers from other countries to the Philippines. With market potential off 1 billion tourists
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Critically examine the view that the debt crisis is a result of inappropriate development policies. (40 marks) In 2008, the total external debt for the world’s developing countries was US$3.7 trillion, and US$163 billion for the worlds least developed countries For the developing world as a whole, in 1991, the total external debt was $1.362 trillion, which was 126.5%of its total exports of goods and services in that year, and the ratio of debt servicing to the gross domestic product
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