The Philippines is probably the only country still following the dictates of the Washington Consensus. Most of the world started de-linking itself from it some years back. Matuto ka na nang Mandarin.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/globalization/globalization-of-the-economy-2-1/world-bank-2-10.html

http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/finance/twninfofinance017.htm

This was over five years ago.

“As governments ponder these alternatives, they would do well to consider the following astonishing fact: Despite the tremendous wave of neoliberal reform that swept over the continent during the last two decades, only three economies in Latin America managed in the 1990s to outdo the performance they had experienced under the inward-looking, populist policies of the past. Chile remains a success, in part because it has taken a cooler attitude towards capital inflows than the others. Uruguay looks shaky and is hardly an inspiring example in any case because its growth rate has been anemic. And Argentina now lies in ruins. Its collapse reminds developing nations in Latin America and elsewhere that they cannot postpone much longer the stark choice they face. Either they will sacrifice sovereignty in a big way, or they will reassert it vigorously. “

Dani Rodrik is professor of international political economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

sorry, wrong number.

This is a question that is directed to all. Ever since Cory’s government all Presidents followed the policy prescriptions embodied in the Medium Term Development Plan crafted by the Breton Woods Institutions with the U.P. School of Economics and carried out by NEDA.

Has any Presidentiable candidate come out with his plans (Platforms are goals). Without them there is nothing. Plans are policy prescriptions.

Or will they simply follow the same MTDP like always?

Those policy prescriptions are responsible for bringing the country to where it is today. Just look at the rush of people who want to become political entrepreneurs. The almost complete capture of government by a handful from the private sector is at hand. We now have the specter of a Predator State before our very eyes. From business overlords to warlords.

The new president will face a horrendous fiscal position and the stark fact that the country is now in a debt prison. We will have to continue to borrow simply to feed our people. Very little is left for creating public capital and human capital. The state has been beggared.

Now we know that some parts of this country resemble Somalia for real.
The reason are many but the entire narrative is framed by the failure of the state.
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Too dramatic and very good fiction. As always someone has some conspiracy/global economy theory (half assed) without bothering to support them with facts and numbers…precisely the reason why JAG is just an anonymous blogger not a serious economist or columnist or professor…get a day job!

I’m sure it’s plainly obvious murder is not just the concern of the victim’s family. It’s a national and global concern. Mass murder affects all of us. I don’t care if magundadatu cares more about position than his wife or sisters.

“President Gloria is the best leader our country has ever had and I thank God that I was born the son of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.” Mikey

huwag sanang gamitin ang dating brotsa na balot sa dugo ng maduming kaisipan ang siya ding ipampintura sa mga pinoy na nasa ibang bansang nagsakripisyong mahiwalay sa mga mahal sa buhay, na dahil na din sa kakulangan ng disenteng trabaho sa pilipinas, para lang kumita ng kakarampot na salapi para mabuhay ng marangal ang mga naiwang mahal sa buhay sa pilipinas.

ayaw ko sanang isipin na halos, inuulit ko HALOS, lahat ng mga pinoy na nasa ibang bansa ay nakatutok sa mga pangyayari, nangyayari at mangyayari pa sa pilipinas – kesa sa mga kababayan natin nasa pilipinas – ito ay dahil na din, hindi sa dahil ang mga kababayan nating nasa pilipinas walang mga pakialam kung ano na ang nangyayari sa pilipinas, sa abala silang magtrabaho, o maghanap ng trabaho, at kakulangan ng panahon para isipin pa ang mga ganitong problema sa pilipinas dahil ang “wake up” hours nila ay natutuon at nauubos sa mahabang panahong pakikibaka sa trapik sa lansangan papunta sa kanilang mga trabaho, at pabalik sa bahay, na sa pagtataya ko ay humigit kumulang sa 11 at kalahating oras araw araw – kasama na dito ang panahong (8.5 oras)) na pagtatrabaho.

ang suma’t total ay kakulangan ng may kalidad na panahon para sa pamilya – quality of family life suffers – dahil nga sa mga tulog pa sila pag umaalis ng bahay papuntang trabaho, at pag balik naman mula trabaho, ay malalim na sa gabi’t tulog na ulit ang mga kasambahay.

establishing a territorial and political line between tagalog region, ilocano region, christian region etc. will definitely start and promote regionalism,division and perhaps within 10 years there will only be one standing region–Metro Manila region. RP is balkanized into 13 indpendent states. so ampatuan massacre is drop in the bucket compared to real ethnic cleansing under federalism.”

I see no evidence of the dominant ethnic groups massacring each other after federalism. The Ampatuan massacre is not ethnic cleansing. It’s a clan war/political war/gang related violence (if you view political dynasties as cosa nostra style “families”).

There was the suggestion that ethnic groups will prosper because of jealousy. One ethnic group will not allow the others to become richer than them, so they’ll strive one-up the other ethnic groups by developing as well. But for our dominant ethnic groups to start murdering each other is not in our traditions.