Virtuous Impatience What Our Country Needs In This Fast-Changing World; A Collection of Essays
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“Virtuous Impatience highlights the urgent need in awakening our national policymakers to the importance of bold and rewarding long-term reforms to accelerate economic development.”
—Gerardo P. Sicat, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Economics, UP, and First Minister of Economic Planning, NEDA
“More so now, these essays remain a timely and valuable reminder of how things have come to be and how things can be.”
—Tessie Sy-Coson, Vice Chair, SM Investments Corporation
“Former NEDA Secretary Ernesto Pernia's new book Virtuous Impatience is an eye-opener on the current state of our country … a must-read for policymakers in the government, administrators, political science students, future economists, and social science educators.”
—Sherwin T. Gatchalian, Senator of the Philippines
Author: Ernesto M. Pernia
ISBN/ISSN: 978971542940-5
Category: Literary; Essays; Economic Development; Poverty
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 208pp
Size: 6x9
Type: PB/SP
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Publisher: University of the Philippines Press
Year: 2020
Condition: New
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Language: English
ISBN: 9789715429405
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