The history of trade in the Philippines
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- Who's to blame for PAL's
- By Neal H. Cruz, Philippine Daily Inquirer,
17 May 1999. Perhaps in its overeagerness to implement the
Ramos administration's policy of
globalization, the CAB opened the Philippine skies to
practically all airlines. The theory is that if you open
the airline industry to free competition, passenger rates
will go down. So the CAB went on a spree of indiscriminate
granting of air rights and TOPs to foreign airlines.
- The Impact of Fair Trade On Small Mango
Producers in the Philippines
- By Father Shay Cullen, PREDA Foundation Inc., 23 October
2000. The unjust socioeconomic system set-up and dominated
by a oligarchy of ruling elite is one of the main causes
of hunger and widespread poverty in the Philippines as it
is elsewhere in the Developing World. Small producers in
the Philippines are at the mercy of a powerful clique that
control production and the marketing of food.
- Multinat'l firms blocking imports of
- ABS-CBN, Friday 24 November 2000. Cheap imported
medicine may not have a chance to proliferate in the
Philippine market as soon as planned. This after
multinational drug companies filed a complaint against the
Philippine government in court on grounds the importation
of cheap drugs from India would arbitrarily hurt their
share in the domestic drug market.
- Philippines Mulls Withdrawal From WTO,
- Bridges, Vol. 6 no. 10, 19 March
2002. Philippines considering withdrawing from the WTO
over what he claims is the trade body's discrimination
between its developed and developing country Members.