Local Government Code of the PhilippinesThis paper attempts to scrutinize the democratic practices of non-governmental and people's organizations (NGOs and POs)鈥攇roups that claim to represent the interest of 'the people'. It finds a need to do so in light of the democratization wave ...
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and Geographical Disparities in Local Government Income in the Philippines Whether intergovernmental transfers can remedy geographic disparities in development without an explicit horizontal equalization feature has been a matter ... Adam,Yeeles - 《Journal of Southeast Asian ...
. There, between Luzon and Taiwan, the plate boundary is not a single distinct unit because the eastward-dipping Manila Trench overlaps the westward-dipping Philippine Trench at the latitude of Luzon island and the northward-dipping Ryukyu Trench at the latitude of Taiwan. In the vicinity of bot...
To meet the demands of the Philippines' growing economy, the Philippine government has set its sights on accelerating infrastructure development. Recognizing the indispensable role of the private sector in driving national growth, Public-Private Partnerships (“PPPs”) have emerged as an essential ...
Island faunas can be characterized by gigantism in small animals and dwarfism in large animals, but the extent to which this so-called ‘island rule’ provides a general explanation for evolutionary trajectories on islands remains contentious. Here we us
"one China" policy concerning Taiwan since the United States (under President Nixon) began in 1971 to reach understandings with the People's Republic of China (PRC) government in Beijing, which has insisted on its "one China" principle. Part II comprehensively reviews the evolution of policies...
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We collected stories in a community of Agta in Palanan, the Philippines. We asked three elders to tell us stories they normally tell children and each other. The elders told us four stories over three nights (Table1). All stories featured humanised natural entities such as animals or celesti...
Local resource management and development: strategic dimensions of people's participation. With the use of examples from Rwanda Nepal Burkina Faso the Philippines and India community participation in resource management is examined. Resource mana... E Press 被引量: 19发表: 1992年 Partnering with NGO...
Dissimilatory sulfate reduction (DSR)—an important reaction in the biogeochemical sulfur cycle—has been dated to the Palaeoarchaean using geological evidence, but its evolutionary history is poorly understood. Several lineages of bacteria carry out DSR