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We Filipinos often get frustrated over how the country has lagged behind our neighbors in terms of national wealth, industrial capabilities and overall economic output. Even Vietnam, a country that 30 years ago had nothing except the ruins of war and basic agriculture, emerged to become wealthier than the Philippines today.
We Filipinos often get frustrated over how the country has lagged behind our neighbors in terms of national wealth, industrial capabilities and overall economic output. Even Vietnam, a country that 30 years ago had nothing except the ruins of war and basic agriculture, emerged to become wealthier than the Philippines today.
I was deluged with reactions regarding my “Bad Banker” column of March 9, 2023 which was hugely critical of the state-owned Land Bank of the Philippines and its utter million failure to enrich the Filipino farmer-beneficiaries of land reform (a reformist project of the late president Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr.) and boost the country’s agriculture sector.