In almost 30 years of implementation, the Sangguniang Kabataan, which is the Philippines’ version of the village youth council, has faced many challenges, from accusations of exposing ineffective and corrupt practices to young leaders to allegations of electoral malpractices such as vote-buying and patronage politics. All these led to real threats to the abolishment of continue reading : Advancing Youth Governance in the Philippines: A Narrative of the Sangguniang Kabataan and its Road to Reform
A Policy Toolkit for Addressing Varying Local Political and Economic Governance Environments: Insights from Philippine Provinces
In this paper, we propose that development trajectories in Philippine provinces are not just influenced by the concentration of power within certain families (fat dynasties) but also by the economic and institutional contexts that they are characterized with. Building on a typology of dynasty behavior in the Philippines by Mendoza et al. (forthcoming), we develop continue reading : A Policy Toolkit for Addressing Varying Local Political and Economic Governance Environments: Insights from Philippine Provinces