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Philippines
Index
This edition is a revision of the 1983 Philippines: A
Country Study. The new edition recounts events in the
Philippines since the ouster of President Ferdinand Marcos, the
restoration of democracy, and the installation of President
Corazon Aquino in February 1986.
Like its predecessor, this study is an effort to present an
objective and concise account of the major social, economic,
political, and national security concerns of the Philippines in
the 1990s, using an historical framework. Sources of information
include scholarly books, official reports from government and
international organizations, and foreign and domestic newspapers
and periodicals. Brief commentary on some of the more useful and
readily accessible sources appears at the end of each chapter.
Full references to these and other sources used by the authors
are listed in the Bibliography.
The authors have limited the use of foreign and technical
terms, which are defined when they first appear. Readers are also
referred to the Glossary in the back of the book. The authors
have used the place names established by the United States Board
on Geographic Names. Pilipino personal and place names and
terminology include the tilde. Names and terminology from the
Spanish colonial period include accented vowels in addition to
the tilde. A conversion table is provided to assist readers
unfamiliar with metric measurements (see
table 1, Appendix).
The body of the text reflects information available as of
June 1991. Certain other portions of the text, however, have been
updated. The Introduction discusses significant events that have
occurred since the completion of research, and the Country
Profile includes updated information as available.
Data as of June 1991
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