A Vision for Filipinos

Abstract

A firm, creative leadership, guided by a nationalist vision for development can rally Filipinos to work for social renovation and national reconstruction. Government must focus on: preparing a national program of industrialization, agro-industrial development, investment and income generation and employment; an assertion of the national will to remove military bases and foreign troops from the Philippines and convert these bases into modern commercial-industrial zones; a just and comprehensive strategy to resolve the external debt problem; and a program of rural transformation that must include a real comprehensive land and natural resources reform and agro-industrial development.