Abstract
“My idea was to…[promote] values and clean up the government as you go up the ladder.…Start at the barrio, then the municipalities, then the provinces, and then go to the national Senate and Congress.” – Ramon Binamira, Presidential Assistant for Community Development (PACD), 1953–1961 “[The 1991 Local Government Code] was by far one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation that radically transformed the very nature of the Philippine politico-administrative system at the national and local levels.…[It] set off the process of reinventing and defining the discourse of local government in the Philippines.…[T]he implementation of devolution and autonomy has further strengthened my conviction and resolve that local autonomy is indeed the key to development in the countryside.” – Aquilino Q. Pimentel, 2000 “Federalism would be the logical and practical culmination of decentralization and local autonomy.…Governance will be improved and corruption will be reduced by the new division of powers and functions between the Federal Government and the States, and by the transparency of governance and its accessibility to the people in the regions, cities, provinces, and municipalities.” – Jose V. Abueva, Citizens’ Movement for a Federal Republic, 2005.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Social Difference and Constitutionalism in Pan-Asia |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 75-108 |
| Number of pages | 34 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781139567312 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781107036277 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2012 |