The Philippines: A Third World country forever?
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| Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz |
There were those happy times and easy days when in Asia, the Philippines was second only to Japan in socio-economic development. It would not be merely wishful thinking that the Philippines could be then considered as a “First World Country” — if the phrase were already in use. But the big misfortune came to pass that one regime after another, one government after another, and the Philippine has degraded slowly but surely into a Third World Country. This pitiful Philippine status continues to be vivid and vibrant in the mind and heart of the international community to this decade. Thus this country is accordingly treated and mistreated.
How come? What happened in the course of time? Who made it happen? How did it happen? Is the Philippines condemned to be a Third World Country — forever? Shall the Filipinos be continuously identified with poverty and misery? Will the country be consistently considered as the fertile ground of graft and corruption, of criminality and injustice, in the Asian continent? Is the Philippines then a lost — hopeless — case in the world of development and progress?.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110705com7.html
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