Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic reform. I am not going to make any fundamental change of the economic system we have. But I know the current government has been supported primarily by the large corporations. In my economic policy, I am going to concentrate on building up small and medium industries. It's very unfortunate that the government has had such tight control over every sector of industry. I am going to have an economy in which we have freedom of competition. We will go from a dictatorial economy to a free economy...
...once compared himself to a legendary "foolish old man" who picked away at mountains that obstructed the view from his house. Because his diligence found favor in heaven's eyes, the "foolish" man finally moved the mountains. Faced with a conservative backlash that has blocked his political and economic reforms since January, Deng Xiaoping, the current master of China, appears to be writing his own version of Mao's parable. Deng has resolutely continued to chip at the mountainous obstacles to his reform program. As a result, reformers seem to have regained the upper hand and positioned themselves for further...
...World Bank has announced that it does not consider the proposed CARP plan a viable program, primarily for reasons of funding. The government is severely strapped for cash. Originally the funds to be recovered from Marcos' illegal dealings were to be used to fund the agrarian reform program; much of this money, however, has yet to materialize...
Furthermore, on June 30 the government announced that only 4 billion pesos ($200 million) of the 13 billion pesos ($650 million) formerly earmarked for agrarian reform in 1988 would actually be allocated...
...each harvest, a fact which helps to explain why there are 24,000 NPA in the field. The corrolation between perceived unfair land practices and military insurgency seems to be unmistakable. Given such a background, if the government of the Philippines wants to pursue--and achieve--a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program worthy of the name. But with a Congress not predisposed to favor such a policy, and a president commited to the policy in theory but incapable of effecting its realization in practice, the prospect of such a necessary agrarian reform program coming to fruition seems remote...