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…As long as the current social-political and economic situations in our country prevail, as long as the government pursues the same economic policies and ways of governing, this collection will be useful. But we wouldn’t want the former to continue; we’d just rather this book soon come down as a valuable piece of historical record.” – From the “Overview” of Yearbook 2010/Transitions
Since 2009, Focus on the Global South-Philippines Programme has published a yearbook to gather together, under a theme, articles/pieces that have been originally part of the past year’s issues of our e-bulletin Focus on the Philippines (News Analysis and Features). In Yearbook 2010, there are about three new articles written for the purpose of giving updates on some very key issues. As in the past yearbooks, we also want to highlight significant events that continue to bear on the Philippines and Filipinos through the selections in Yearbook 2010.
Yearbook 2010’s theme, which has been adopted as well as its title, is Transitions—to indicate the changes or process of change that the Philippines experienced in 2010 and continues to undergo now as consequence of events that occurred in the past year.
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Transitions: Focus on the Philippines 2010 Year Book
Project 2010
Without knowing what ‘hit’ us during the nine-year reign of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, there is no way that the new Philippine government and the Filipinos can go forward. This is the purpose of this book—to help us know, remember, confront the GMA regime’s legacies through a collection of nine analytical pieces that document, dissect and analyze the ruinous path the Philippines had been thrown into in the past nine years. Contributing authors were from various fields and backgrounds, including activists, advocates, researchers, writers, journalists and academics.
Extreme Weather Events: Focus on the Philippines 2009 YearBook
A collection of articles that came out in Focus Philippines’ e-newsletter, Focus on the Philippines, Yearbook 2009 looks at the impacts of climate change in the Philippines as well as the challenges it poses to Philippine government to improve its disaster preparedness, address climate justice and re-imagine its entire development agenda. However, the “weather events” do not refer only to geophysical disturbances, but also—and equally important—to political events and issues disturbing the country.
To request for a copy, please contact: Lourdes Torres at lou_torres[at]focusweb.org, +63 2 4330899
'Crisis and Change' Focus on the Philippines 2008 Yearbook
MANILA, PHILIPPINES-- Focus on the Global South, a Manila and Bangkok-based think tank, released its Focus on the Philippines 2008 Yearbook called 'Crisis and Change'. The 250-page yearbook contains analyses, commentaries, and reports on key economic and political issues that took center stage in 2008, such as Mindanao and the MOA-AD and the Economic Crisis.
Rounding up and engaging important debates and discourse in the Philippines, Crisis and Change: Focus on the Philippines 2008 Yearbook can serve as a key resource for researchers, activists and social movements, students and academics, media, policy makers as well as the general public.
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Dilemmas of Competition and Community Building:
Developing Civil Society Response to Regional Trade and Economic Integrationby Jenina Joy Chavez and Alexander Chandra
Notwithstanding the proliferation of regional initiatives i n the last decade, the currency of regionalism and regional integration arises more out of the reaction to the rapidness by which the multilateral system is overtaking the world, rather than from an established (indigenous?) need for it. North America forged a Free Trade area as a reaction to the consolidation of the European Union. The initiatives in Asia and the Pacific have been prompted more by the desire of the bigger economies (US in the case of Asia Pacific have been prompted more by the desire of the bigger economies (US in the case of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation; EU in the case of Asia Europe Meeting) not to be left out of any major moves by the developing world to cooperate with each other. While the EU can boast of the longest history of regional cooperation with broad focus, attempts elsewhere had been limited to economic (specifically trade) agreements, with some not even close to claiming any success (e.g. Latin America and Africa).
This publication is a part of South East Asian Committee for Advocacy’s (SEACA’s) Occasional Papers. Released in January 2008, this Occasional Paper is available at the SEACA office: #29-D Mayaman Street UP Village, Diliman, Quezon City 1101 Philippines. For inquiries about the purchase or distribution of the publication, please contact SEACA at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or you may visit their website at www.seaca.net.
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