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Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Pilipino

1) "Modernizing agriculture" by planting high-value crops like cashew, asparagus, pepper and yams (ube) for export and reducing lands planted to rice;

2) Planting one billion commercial fast-growing trees that can be harvested by giant logging companies in five years;

3) Building 750,000 low-cost houses in three years to win over the urban poor and create thousands of transient employment in the stagnant construction sector;

4) Adopting an open skies policy so foreign airlines can fly in Philippine airspace;

5) Hyping grandiose and highly conspicuous projects in the export processing zones of Luzon in the hope of attracting foreign funding and aid;

6) Allowing local government units to enter into build-operate-transfer schemes with private companies up to the provincial level in order to benefit more foreign companies and corrupt government officials;

7) Sending 25,000 government scholars to the US, Europe and Japan to study science and technology, hoping they would impart their knowledge to the country even if there are no industries that could absorb them upon their return � if they ever come back at all.

8) Balancing the national budget from 2003 onwards even if the deficit for 2002 reached P223 billion and even if economists on the regime's payroll say that the deficit will neither be reduced nor wiped out in the next three years.

January 2003
English Edition

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