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The government also extended military support to Alfonso Lim, with one of his companies enlisting 150 soldiers and 50 security guards. The Philippine Military trained draftees, and Lim paid for their salaries and provided their weapons. [2] Herminio Disini, a Marcos crony known for his tobacco monopoly, also had dealings with agriculture and ...
The word polo refers to community work, and the laborer was called polista. [4] The community activities that polistas have to perform may include cutting of trees for timber, and building Galleon trade ships, [5] churches, government buildings, roads, and bridges. [6] Polo y servicio required males from 16 to 60 years old for a 40-day period ...
By 1981, the wealthiest 10% of the population was receiving twice as much income as the bottom 60%. [17] By 1981, the wealthiest 10% of the population was receiving twice as much income as the bottom 60%. [17] Poverty grew from 41% in the 1960s to 59% in 1986. [11] [18] [19] The unemployment rate increased from 3.9% in 1975 to 12.6% in 1985. [20]
In economics, a government-granted monopoly (also called a "de jure monopoly" or "regulated monopoly") is a form of coercive monopoly by which a government grants exclusive privilege to a private individual or firm to be the sole provider of a good or service; potential competitors are excluded from the market by law, regulation, or other mechanisms of government enforcement.
Location of the Philippines. The Philippines is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean. It is a founding member of the United Nations, World Trade Organization, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, and the East Asia Summit.
The company was folded and re-created in 2009, and privatized in 2012, under the supervision of the EU and IMF, as it was part of the debt-restructuring process of 2012. OPAP (Lottery and Betting Monopoly) – privatization completed in 2013, when the last remaining government-owned stock was sold [15]
Petron Corporation is the largest oil refining and marketing company in the Philippines, [4] supplying more than a third of the country's oil requirements. It operates a refinery in Limay, Bataan with a rated capacity of 180,000 barrels per day (29,000 m 3 /d). From the refinery, Petron moves its products mainly by sea to 32 depots and ...
According to World Bank data, the Philippines' gross domestic product (GDP) quadrupled from $8 billion in 1972 to $32.45 billion in 1980, for an inflation-adjusted average growth rate of 6% per year. [40] Indeed, according to the U.S.-based Heritage Foundation, the Philippines enjoyed its best economic development since 1945 between 1972 and 1980.