scholarly journals The Political, Economic and Labor Climate in the Philippines, by Jaime T. Infante, Industrial Research Unit, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1980, Paperback, 147 pp.,

1982 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 720
Author(s):  
Elias T. Ramos
1999 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Hutchcroft

Since the late-1980s, efforts to consolidate democracy in Thailand and the Philippines have been accompanied by marked contrasts both in levels of developmental success and degrees of subsequent economic decline. In Thailand, extraordinary rates of growth in the decade prior to 1997 were followed by dramatic contraction; in the Philippines, the more modest and short-lived gains of the mid-1990s have been followed by economic standstill but not cataclysmic crash. Despite the major differences in the political economic foundations and economic performance of these two economies, Thailand and the Philippines currently face many common challenges of supplementing earlier neoliberal economic reform with the more daunting tasks of political and institutional reform. In particular, this brief and synoptic analysis will argue, both confront the need to enhance the quality of their democracies and the capacity of key bureaucratic agencies.


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