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[22] [23] Imee Marcos accused House Speaker Martin Romualdez of spearheading the initiative for Charter change and questioned the initiative's motives, saying the restrictive economic provisions have already been addressed in the past Congress through the enactment of the Retail Trade Act, Foreign Investments Act, and Public Service Act. [17]
In December 2006, House Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr. attempted to push for the constitutional change process by convening the House of Representatives of the Philippines and the Senate of the Philippines into a Constituent Assembly, or "con-ass," one of the three modes by which the 1987 Constitution could be amended.
People's initiative (or "PI") is a common appellative in the Philippines that refers to either a mode for constitutional amendment provided by the 1987 Philippine Constitution or to the act of pushing an initiative (national or local) allowed by the Philippine Initiative and Referendum Act of 1987.
challenges that must be addressed in order to create change. This tool grounds the business case for diversity in solid research. It is not a bibliography of business case research, but it is intended to provide readers, including D&I practitioners, diversity initiative sponsors, and ERG leaders, with recent data to use in their efforts to build
Social change may not refer to the notion of social progress or sociocultural evolution, the philosophical idea that society moves forward by evolutionary means.It may refer to a paradigmatic change in the socio-economic structure, for instance the transition from feudalism to capitalism, or hypothetical future transition to some form of post-capitalism.
Value-added theory (also known as social strain theory) is a sociological theory, first proposed by Neil Smelser in 1962, which posits that certain conditions are needed for the development of a social movement.
On June 2, 1978, the DSSD was renamed Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD) in line with the change in the form of government. In 1987, the MSSD was reorganized and renamed the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) through Executive Order 123, which was signed by President Corazon C. Aquino.
Poverty in the Philippines also had its roots from land inequality resulting from land policies under colonization by Spain and the United States. [29] The Philippines, after its independence in 1946, historically pursued an import substitution industrial policy, penalizing primary and agricultural sectors through tariffs and overvaluing the peso.