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	Paraiso Philippines - Tourism and Travel Guide
		Philippines covers a variety and a more broader topic worldwide but of course and still mostly about the Philippines with a touch of English and Tagalog language with top topic coverages that are really Wow from a readers perspective.
		Philippines a major force in bringing viewers from all parts of the globe who wishes to view a different kind or form of blogging.
		Much of her story are included on Philippine textbooks, archived as one of the greatest heroines and she also have a statue at the Hundred islands National Park with the capitol building in Lingayen named after her as Urduja Palace.
	www.paraisophilippines.com (1380 words)

	Economy of the Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Historically, the Philippines was primarily an agricultural region producing copra, maize, hemp, rice, sugar, and tobacco.
		In 1998, the Philippine economy deteriorated as a result of spill-over from the Asian financial crisis and poor weather conditions.
		As of 2006 the economy of the Philippines had a phenomenal growth since the month of November 2005 effecting for lowering of petroleum products and increase of job and industrial opportunities for people and having the currency of the Philippines one of the most oustanding in growth in the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economy_of_the_Philippines (1244 words)

	Economy
		By the mid-1990s the Philippine economy had largely recovered and was experiencing steady growth.
		The surrounding and inland seas of the Philippines yield crab, sardines, anchovies, tuna, scad, and mackerel.
		The Philippine economy was therefore affected by the worldwide slump in demand for these items in the early 2000s.
	www.philippineembassy-usa.org /about/economy.htm (2671 words)

	Economy of the Philippines
		In 1998 the Philippine economy - a mixture of agriculture, light industry, and supporting services - deteriorated as a result of spillover from the Asian financial crisis and poor weather conditions.
		The Philippines was less severely affected by the Asian financial crisis than its neighbors, due in considerable part to remittances of approximately $5-$6 billion annually from overseas workers.
		In 2000, the Philippines GDP increased by 4.0%.
	www.fastload.org /ec/Economy_of_the_Philippines.html (1443 words)

	Philippines, The on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Philippines extend 1,152 mi (1,855 km) from north to south, between Taiwan and Borneo, and 688 mi (1,108 km) from east to west, and are bounded by the Philippine Sea on the east, the Celebes Sea on the south, and the South China Sea on the west.
		The Philippine legislature ratified the bill; a constitution, approved by President Roosevelt (Mar., 1935) was accepted by the Philippine people in a plebiscite (May); and Quezon was elected the first president (Sept.).
		Philippine opposition to García on issues of government corruption and anti-Americanism led, in June, 1959, to the union of the Liberal and Progressive parties, led by Vice President Diosdad Macapagal, the Liberal party leader, who succeeded García as president in the 1961 elections.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/PhilipR1ep.asp (4204 words)

	Philippines Economy
		The Philippines was less severely affected by the Asian financial crisis than its neighbors, aided in part by annual remittances from overseas Filipino workers that are expected to hit the $10 billion mark in 2005.
		Notwithstanding a number of favorable policy developments, the Philippine economy continues to juggle extremely limited financial resources while attempting to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding population and address intensifying demands for the current administration to deliver on its anti-poverty promises.
		Philippine copper, gold and chromite deposits are among the largest in the world.
	www.traveldocs.com /ph/economy.htm (2124 words)

	Philippines (09/05)
		The Philippines is a member of the UN and some of its specialized agencies, and began a 2-year term as a member of the UN Security Council in January 2004, serving as UNSC President in September 2005.
		The Philippines has played a key role in ASEAN in recent years and also values its relations with the countries of the Middle East, in no small part because hundreds of thousands of Filipinos are employed in that region.
		Philippine soldiers and police have participated in a number of multilateral civilian police and peacekeeping operations, and a Philippine Army general served as the first commander of the UN Peacekeeping Operation in East Timor.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2794.htm (6989 words)

	Philippines - POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT
		At the onset of the United States power in the Philippines in 1898-99, this planter group was cultivated as part of the United States military and political pacification program.
		The democratic process imposed on the Philippines during the American colonial period remained under the control of this elite.
		The Philippines had entered an import-substitution stage of industrialization, largely as the unintended consequence of a policy response to balance-of-payments pressures.
	countrystudies.us /philippines/56.htm (598 words)

	Discussions - The Philippines
		On the war front, the Philippines is an ally of the United States in the war on terror and is actively providing support in the form of humanitarian aid.
		In particular, the Philippines lay appropriate claim to Malampaya, Camago, and their gas fields—territories that the PRC have attempted to claim—and have been hoodwinked by PRC and Malaysia in the past when both nations alleged to be fixing “fishing villages” as they established military fixtures on Mischief (1995) and Panganiban Reef.
		Finally, the Philippines hope that a legally binding “code of conduct” may be agreed upon by the ASEAN one day, pursuant to the stipulation of sovereignty “without further use of force” set out by the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (2002).
	www.learntoquestion.com /class/discussion/showthread.php?p=35797 (5000 words)

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		The Philippines' economy is strong and is still growing along side the growth of technology.
		The Philippines' agriculture continues to be a major contributor to the country's GNP even though the percentage has decreased over the years from 22.8% in 1993 to its current percentage of 20.
		Considering the fact that the Philippines is made up of 7,199 islands, it would be assumed that fishing would be a major contributor to the GNP and exports off the country, but, in fact fishing accounts for 5% of the GNP and is hardly exported.
	www.ri.net /schools/East_Greenwich/Cole/philippineseconomy.html (1168 words)

	AEJMC Archives -- September 1997, week 4 (#33)
		The Philippines received at least eleven billion dollars in direct economic aid and specific payments from the mid-1950s to the early 1990s to develop industry and transform agriculture.
		During the years that these consequences occurred in the Philippines, American newsmagazines reflected an Euro-American viewpoint by assuming that the cyclical failures of the commercialization of agriculture, industrialization, and participation in the global economy were caused by Filipino attitudes, incompetence, and moral turpitude.
		Philippine officials were profiled to personify government programs, a journalistic technique that paid attention to a national elite rather than to the people most affected by policies and programs.
	list.msu.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9709D&L=aejmc&P=R32599&m=656 (6501 words)

	Philippines \| Filipino \| Pinoy \| Tanikalang Ginto \| filipinolinks.com
		Others talk about what's going on their lives in their blogs, in filipinolinks.com, Ken basically reviews the myriad of Filipino/Philippine-orientated sites that he finds in his daily meandering in cyberspace.
		Ken is a native of Malinao, Aklan on Panay Island in the Philippines and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
		He was once chosen by the now defunct Web Philippines as one of the ten most influential Filipinos on the Internet and also one of Asia's movers and shakers under 50 by Asia Inc.
	www.filipinolinks.com (377 words)

	The PHILIPPINES - Economy
		Perhaps the definitive sign that the Philippines is now a serious rival to the existing Asian tiger economies is that the country is soon to stop using low-interest rate loans from the International Monetary Fund after three decades of reliance.
		The Philippines is now seen as a nation that can stand on its own two feet financially and indeed regularly exceeds IMF economic targets.
		However, with only time so far for one democratic handover of power since the end of the Marcos regime, international investors will be keeping a watchful eye on the events in coming months to see how the democracy deals with the fast-approaching end to the successful era of the Ramos presidency.
	www.unitedworld-usa.com /reports/philippines/economy.asp (1004 words)

	EFC-ER: Mission Focus - Philippines
		Christianity is very common in the Philippines with 95% of the population claiming Roman Catholicism as their personal religion.
		Persecution throughout most of the Philippines is strong but, subversive because many people claim to be Christians but they have a life-style very different from Christianity, including ancestor worship.
		As the economy in the Philippines becomes more and more inflated, the poor in every community are being deeply affected.
	www.efcer.org /missions/focus/philippines.html (745 words)

	Philippines - Economy
		The Philippines was less severely affected by the Asian financial crisis of 1998 than its neighbors, aided in part by annual remittances of $6-7 billion from overseas workers.
		From a 0.6% decline in 1998, GDP expanded by 2.4% in 1999, and 4.4% in 2000, but slowed to 3.2% in 2001 in the context of a global economic slowdown, an export slump, and political and security concerns.
		The strategy includes improving the infrastructure, strengthening tax collection to bolster government revenues, furthering deregulation and privatization of the economy, enhancing the viability of the financial system, and increasing trade integration with the region.
	www.classbrain.com /art_cr/publish/philippines_economy.shtml (346 words)

	Daily Herald \| The Philippines: Arc of the islanders
		Call centers are part of the new economy of the Philippines, aiming to provide fresh sources of jobs to the upcoming boom of workers.
		The Philippines will surpass India by 2008 as home to the world's largest call center industry, according to XMG Inc., a Manila-based research and advisory firm.
		In the context of the Philippine economy, the pay is pretty good.
	www.dailyherald.com /special/philippines/part2c.asp (1130 words)

	WWF - Whale shark ecotourism contributes to Filipino economy
		Donsol, the Philippines – Swimming with whale sharks is contributing to the economy of the Philippines.
		The revenues accrued in the Philippines, however, are only a fraction of the whale shark tourism earnings of Ningaloo Reef in Australia and Gladden Spit Marine Reserves in Belize.
		A new WWF business plan development study shows that the capacity of ecotourism to generate income and employment for the local economy in Donsol was significantly reduced as a result of inadequate tourist facilities and other infrastructure.
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/asia_pacific/where/philippines/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=23534 (603 words)

	Tax reform and energy in the Philippines economy: a general equilibrium computation. \| Economics
		Since the energy sector is the largest non-agricultural industry-its share in the total value added produced by the economy is about 9%, (Philippines Statistical Yearbook, 1989)--one possible way to improve the economic conditions is to expand the energy sector.
		This is because the Philippines is a small developing country that is virtually dependent on imports for its fossil fuel needs, much of which is used to produce electricity.
		"Tax reform and energy in the Philippines economy: a general equilibrium computation." is an article from the Economics category.
	www.allbusiness.com /periodicals/article/466082-1.html (767 words)

	Philippines: Year-End Medical Device Market Update 1999
		The Philippines, like Indonesia was hit hard by the crisis, but is apparently now on the road to economic recovery.
		In 1998, the Philippine economy deteriorated as a result of spillover from the Asian financial crisis and poor weather conditions.
		The medical device registration in the Philippines is governed by the Bureau of Food and Drugs of the Department of Health and is regulated according to the Rules and Regulations on Registration and Labeling of In-vitro Diagnostics Reagents.
	www.pacificbridgemedical.com /publications/html/Philippines1999.htm (384 words)

	Random Notes on the Philippines Economy: Six Months Into the GMA Experience
		The good factors (the seeming return of at least some foreign investors) are being overshadowed by the bad (the international economy and continued political concerns).
		There's encouraging evidence that the Philippines economy is not totally dead in the water.
		And the vicissitudes of the Philippine political crapshoot are nothing short of amazing, as witness the current Senate narco-government hearings and the incredible scope of allegations against Ping Lacson.
	www.apmforum.com /columns/orientseas33.htm (1835 words)

	Economy of the Philippines
		In his article "The Philippines at the Crossroads" Paul D. Hutchcraft noted that the early 1990's presented a number of challenges for the then president Fidel Ramos (1).
		In Central Luzon alone, a 75 percent year-on-year increase to P6.5 billion in fresh investments was recorded, during the January-March 1999 period, which was viewed as a "clear sign" of the increasing investor confidence in the Estrada administration" (5).
		President Estrada has lead the Philippines into the the Information Age with a push to develoup the infrastructure and human capital necessary to build an electric economy.
	www.csubak.edu /PacificRim/countryprospectus/economy.htm (908 words)

	Internet Links for The Philippines
		The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism is an award-winning, independent, nonprofit media agency that specializes in investigative reporting.
		A Critical Survey of Philippine Literature is a website dedicated to providing a comprehensive look at Philippine literature; it provides access to works by Filipino writers in the Philippines and abroad, as well as critical perspectives.
		This homepage for the Philippines Studies Group features a long list of links to websites on Philippine studies, a list of recent books on the Philippines, and subscription information for the PSG listserve and the journal Pilipinas.
	www.library.ucla.edu /libraries/url/colls/sea/linksphilippines.htm (1722 words)

	Clean Cities: Clean Cities and Coconuts Beget Alternative Fuels in the Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The international component of Clean Cities is assisting the Philippines as part of the Sustainable Energy Development Program (SEDP), a partnership that also includes the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Philippine Department of Energy.
		He and the Philippine Energy Secretary Vincente Perez signed a memorandum of understanding to promote alternative fuel vehicles and strengthen the SEDP, which also addresses reform of the Philippine electric power industry.
		The first Clean Cities mission to the Philippines, in 2002, focused on assessing the country's resources and developing alternative fuel strategies (see Development of the Clean Cities Model in Manila, the Philippines (PDF 2.9 MB) Download Acrobat Reader).
	www.eere.energy.gov /cleancities/progs/afdc/ddown.cgi?/WHATS_NEW/442/1/0 (572 words)

	Politics brings Uncertainty to Philippines Economy
		On the strength of increased agricultural output, the Philippines economy gathered a head of steam in the third quarter.
		The economy of the Philippines is still largely agriculturally based.
		As for exports, about two-thirds of the Philippines exports is electronics, they are slumping in the face of increased global spending on technology.
	www.bizasia.com /economy_/gn54j/politics_brings_uncertainty.htm (398 words)

	COGIC Missions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Philippine government is considered a republic which gained its independence (from the U.S.) on July 4, 1946.
		The monetary unit for the Philippines is called the peso.
		We praise God for His mercies to the people of the Philippines and we are greatly encouraged by His unconditional love.
	www.cogicmissions.org /is_phillipines.htm (1025 words)

	economic crisis in the philippines : Philippines : Gov.Ph : Forum (Site not responding. Last check: )
		My parting words and you can quote me on this, the Philippine economic crisis is partly due to the preferences of ordinary citizens to buy foreign made goods.
		I think our economy is always up and down--always depends on who's the president.
		but i think what is even more significant in helping work out our economy is through active participation in the civic transformation such as activities that would develop self discipline and commitment.
	www.gov.ph /forum/thread.asp?rootID=41657&catID=11 (1591 words)

	Why should we still have hope in the Philippines Economy? : Philippines : Gov.Ph : Forum (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The big problem here is that we have come to depend on fiat money to run our economy this has led to a reduction in the economy there.
		At this point the piso is now at 56.17, what you have is a people who deal with their problems than does the west.
		Adam Smith in 1776 wrote in 'The Wealth of Nations' that the source of wealth of a nation are it's people -their skills, dexterity and judgment- not gold and silver.
	www.gov.ph /forum/thread.asp?rootID=33945&catID=11 (1649 words)

	Go Figure: Underground economy in the Philippines
		Cielito Habito (whose Inquirer column every civic-minded Filipino should read) has a piece on the underground economy.
		Briefly put, the method uses labor productivity figures in the formal sector, and applies it to informal sector employment captured in the labor surveys.
		The underground economy accounts for about 43% of GDP, it seems.
	rationalchoice.blogspot.com /2005/08/underground-economy-in-philippines.html (270 words)

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