Authors
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Wilfredo G. Villanueva
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Cha Coronel Datu
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Juana Pilipinas
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Karl Garcia
- Before Colonization: The Maritime, Networked, and Layered Foundations of the Philippines
- MIGRATION, REINTEGRATION, AND LABOR MOBILITY IN THE PHILIPPINES
- Why the Philippines Keeps Entering Global Value Chains Without Fully Climbing Them
- We Are Not Starting From Scratch: A Note on Continuity, Constraint, and National Learning By Karl Garcia
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giancarloangulo
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Irineo B. R. Salazar
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JPilipinas
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karlgarcia
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JoeAm
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"American government is a deviant subculture."
Let us suppose that I am back at my home on a mountain top in California, USA, never having traveled to the Philippines, and ran across a blog by a Filipino criticizing US government, social institutions and culture. Say he lived down in the valley below, a permanent resident of the US. What would I … Continue reading
HDPR: The Enormous Challenge, Poverty
Poverty is the big challenge. How does the Aquino administration orchestrate the poverty fight? This blog continues JoeAm’s discovery of how the Philippines works. Where it is first class, and where it is not. It is striking how small the Philippines is in terms of who is managing things. When MLQIII takes time to drop … Continue reading
Kissing and Telling
The Philippines is a mass of inconsistencies and the most inconsistent place of all is romance. “Romance” according to the Humpty Dumpty New World Dictionary is a noun meaning the process by which people exchange affection. It can also be an adjective. A romance novel, for instance, is about love gained and lost and gained … Continue reading
The Bottom Line on Poverty: Parenting
The discussion attached to the recent article “Happy Go Dead” Filipinosgenerated some interesting perspectives. The importance of parental guidance to children was raised, and the ignorance that blocks a lot of parents from understanding how to give responsible guidance to their kids. So the unfortunate behavior pattern of neglect for laws, lack of common sense … Continue reading
Killer Books
Every once in a while I’ll be out typing my yap in a blog site and someone will opine that “Joe America is an intellectual who . . .” Well, boy howdy, that cracks my head open like ripe jack fruit on the cutting board, because I don’t consider myself to be no “intellectual”. I … Continue reading
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