The 1987 Constitution has provisions on agrarian reform, industrialization and sovereign control of the economy. Filipinos would have it so much better now if these were made real instead of overruled by decades of dogmatic globalization.
Economic charter change advocates need to understand the damage the obsolete neoliberalism they’re still pushing has done. Liberalization has driven manufacturing to its smallest share of the economy in 75 years and agriculture to its smallest in history. Poverty and joblessness is chronic and thinly disguised by tweaks in statistical methodologies. They should also see that even advanced economies are today reverting to the kind of protection, self-reliance and independence so wisely enshrined in the 1987 Constitution.
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