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• Economy, social (Mindanao)

  Philippines: ’Mindanao power crisis not yet over’

  13 July 2012, by Freedom from Debt Coalition

  DAVAO CITY - Around 150 delegates from different local consumer groups as well as electric cooperatives and local government units gathered here Friday and vowed to actively pursue people’s solutions to the power crisis that has stricken Mindanao through vigorous advocacy and direct people’s (…)

• Economy, social (Mindanao)

  Philippines – Excerpts from “Development and Distress in Mindanao A Political Economy Overview”

  1 May 2010, by TADEM Eduardo C.

  It is widely believed that economic growth and development have bypassed the southern regions of the Philippines. This is seen as the cause of the serious political problems that now plague Mindanao. A closer look at Mindanao’s economic development, however, reveals that far from being isolated (…)

• Economy, social (Mindanao)

  Foreign Land Ownership Aggravates Mindanao Poverty

  8 May 2009, by Afrim

  The current undertakings of the House of Congress to amend the 1987 Philippine Constitution and allow foreign ownership of land pose threats to Filipinos’ access and control to the country’s land and resources.
  House Resolution 737 authored by Speaker Prospero Nograles proposes to amend the (…)