Let George Do It

Jorge B. Vargas

Biographies & Memoirs

University of Philippines Press

<p>"Poverty and (under)development are the subjects of this book. While the focus is on urban poverty, the principal themes running throughout the book apply as well to rural poverty. The book traces the roots of the Philippine-poverty problem to industrialization and spatial policies that unduly encouraged concentration of infrastructure and social services in major urban centers; to trade and macroeconomic policies that severely penalized agriculture, labor-intensive exports, and small- to medium-scale manufacturing establishments; to public spending policies that accorded little attention to human capital formation for the poor; and to the lack of strong complementarity of state and market. Taking into account economic constraints and political economy considerations, the book discusses ways on how to enhance pro-poor, pro-market, and pro-growth policies, particularly those aimed at correcting disincentives against rapid employment expansion, balanced urban-rural growth, and human capital formation."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved</p>

Poverty, Urbanization, and Development Policy: A Philippine Perspective

History

Balisacan, Professor of Economics Arsenio M

Balisacan, A M

Americas

Over recent years one of the central, underlying assumptions of the social sciences has demonstrably collapsed. We can no longer think of the world as consisting of an aggregation of discrete societies, each with its own culture, each managing and expressing its autonomous identity through the instrumentality of a nation-state that participates, as one of many, in a mosaic of nation-states known as "international society". Instead, we now have to fathom how to understand global representations of the local and local experiences of the global. To do that, we need to rethink the very foundations, character, objectives and agenda of the social science. To this task, Raul Pertierra's new collection of essays- a series of related meditations upon which might be involved in disentangling the intellectual presuppositions of the social sciences from the logic of the merging ascendancy of the modern nation-state that framed their growth - makes a notable contribution. While drawing widely from contemporary philosophy and social theory, Raul Pertierra's investigation of our present intellectual predicament rests upon a possibly surprising realization: that anthropology, the social science discipline which seemingly faced the greatest peril from the advances of global culture, may provide the richest and most secure foundation for understanding and coping practically with its challenges.

Explorations in Social Theory and Philippine Ethnography

Politics & Social Sciences

Pertierra, Raul

Social Sciences

A valuable resource for students of art and art history, this book is the fruit of two decades of research and association with social realists and other protest and in revolutionary artists. Guillermo goes back to the origins of protest art in the 19th century and pursues it to its full flourishing in the Marcos regime and its variations during the Aquino administration. It also projects the trajectory of art into the future as new issues emerge to engage the political artist.

Protest: Revolutionary Art in the Philippines, 1970-1990

Alice G. Guillermo

This book is an introduction to the science of plant classification and identification, or plant taxonomy. It defines terms used in describing a flowering plant and its parts and presents the characteristics of families of common flowering plants in the Philippines. For a clearer understanding, descriptions are supplemented by drawings and photographs. Plants commonly found in gardens, parks, and vacant lots are used as examples and are therefore readily available for study. A section is also devoted to the establishment and maintenance of a herbarium.

A Guide to Families of Common Flowering Plants in the Philippines

Science & Math

Castro, Irma Remo

Biological Sciences

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