The history of trade in the Philippines

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Who's to blame for PAL's problems?
By Neal H. Cruz, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 17 May 1999. Perhaps in its overeagerness to implement the Ramos administration's policy of liberalization and globalization, the CAB opened the Philippine skies to practically all airlines. The theory is that if you open the airline industry to free competition, passenger rates will go down. So the CAB went on a spree of indiscriminate granting of air rights and TOPs to foreign airlines.
The Impact of Fair Trade On Small Mango Producers in the Philippines
By Father Shay Cullen, PREDA Foundation Inc., 23 October 2000. The unjust socioeconomic system set-up and dominated by a oligarchy of ruling elite is one of the main causes of hunger and widespread poverty in the Philippines as it is elsewhere in the Developing World. Small producers in the Philippines are at the mercy of a powerful clique that control production and the marketing of food.
Multinat'l firms blocking imports of cheap drugs
ABS-CBN, Friday 24 November 2000. Cheap imported medicine may not have a chance to proliferate in the Philippine market as soon as planned. This after multinational drug companies filed a complaint against the Philippine government in court on grounds the importation of cheap drugs from India would arbitrarily hurt their share in the domestic drug market.
Philippines Mulls Withdrawal From WTO, Cairns
Bridges, Vol. 6 no. 10, 19 March 2002. Philippines considering withdrawing from the WTO over what he claims is the trade body's discrimination between its developed and developing country Members.