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Duterte’s RCEP push at ASEAN, implications on PH economy & development (Part 2)
August 13, 2017
By Arnold Padilla Part 2 – The more far-reaching implication of the RCEP is on the country’s sovereignty in regulating foreign investments and in designing and implementing development plans that would serve the national interest and public welfare. FTAs like the RCEP want to further erode the mandate of governments and other state institutions. This is […]
Rethink RCEP, liberalization, ASEAN told
April 20, 2017
Research group IBON today asked the Philippine government and other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) to rethink plans of further deepening economic liberalization. This has only caused unprecedented production decline, poverty and joblessness while undermining national sovereignty, development planning, and public welfare and interest in the country and region. IBON […]
