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Philippine Rebellion Buffoonery
By: Gary W. Elliott
Detention, prosecution, and punishment of rebels in Philippine coup attempts, including the last one, appear to be a joke, but implications are too serious to be funny. more...
Antidote for Philippine Corruption
By: Gary W. Elliott
The long-term remedy for corruption in the Philippines is individual character development, but existing institutions must be aggressively used in the short-term fight. more...
The Philippines Fights Corruption
By: Gary W. Elliott
The Philippine Constitution of 1987 and subsequent laws created anti-corruption agencies that, with other government and non-government initiatives, battle corruption. more...
Philippine Culture Permits Graft
By: Gary W. Elliott
Cultural assumptions about rightness or wrongness of individual behavior, a point of religious doctrine, and Spanish colonial experience may influence Philippine graft. more...
Philippine Institutions of Graft
By: Gary W. Elliott
Two major institutions in the Philippine government foster graft and corruption at the national level through allocation of funds and contract irregularities. more...
Philippine Graft and Corruption
By: Gary W. Elliott
The misuse of public money for private gain poses a very grave challenge to national development in the Philippines, and the magnitude of the problem is staggering. more...
Philippine National Development
By: Gary W. Elliott
A growing GNP, relative political stability, and commitment of resources to social development are yielding progress toward the UN's eight Millennium Development Goals. more...
Erratic Philippine Economic Growth
By: Gary W. Elliott
This nation has the ingredients for growth, but progress is unsteady. With exceptions such as the Asian Financial Crisis, domestic issues are causing the stunted growth. more...
Officer-Mutineer-Senator Trillanes
By: Gary W. Elliott
In custody for leading a 2003 mutiny, Trillanes was elected to the Senate last May, then led the Nov 29th coup attempt. His escapades have precedents in the Philippines. more...
By: Gary W. Elliott
Renegade military officers walked out of a court hearing on their 2003 Oakwood Hotel mutiny, took over the Peninsula Hotel, and demanded President Arroyo's resignation. more...
By: John Walsh
The Philippines military forces are fighting extremists in the southern islands - but will their efforts lead to a wider civil war? more...
Breastfeeding in the Philippines
By: John Walsh
Only 16% of mothers in the Philippines breastfeed their babies, despite the health benefits of doing so. Why is this and will it change? more...
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