1st Edition

The Economy of the Philippines Elites, Inequalities and Economic Restructuring

By Peter Krinks Copyright 2002
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

In the late 1950s, the Filipino economy could reasonably have been described as more advanced than those of its South Asian neighbours. Ever since then, however, it has consistently lagged behind and only really started to grow strongly in the mid-1990s and even then it failed to achieve the growth rates of the rest of Southeast Asia ten years earlier. This book critically analyses the Filipino... Read more
1. Understanding the Uneven Development in the Philippines2. The Emergence of the Space Economy3. Disparities in Development on the Eve of the 21st Century4. The Impact of Restructuring in the Primary Sector6. Growth and Problems in the Services Sector7. The Challenge of Restructuring

Biography

Peter Krinks