The Philippine Constitution expressly mandates the State to “promote a just and dynamic social order that will enable the prosperity and independence of the nation and free the people from poverty through policies. Know more:
” in good times). It is a campaign to unite the Filipino producers and consumers in supporting a program to build up the capacity of the nation to produce more and better products as well as to create more and better jobs for as many Filipinos. After all, no consumer in his/her right mind will buy an expensive and shoddy product simply because it is a Filipino product.
Immediately, such a proposition will invite criticism from the neo-liberal economists who will brand such a program of re-building the economy “protectionist” and violative of the national commitments to the WTO and RCEP. But look what’s happening in the world today. Developed countries that have been preaching “free trade” are the ones leading the movement to subvert the global free-trade rules of the WTO.
Not to be outdone, the European Union has adopted the French proposal for a “Made in Europe” program, which essentially means further strengthening of Fortress Europe and maintaining its major industries such as the Airbus-led aviation industry. It also means maintaining the subsidy-filled Common Agricultural Policy in support of European farmers.
The conflicts and disruptions that are dividing and fragmenting the global economic order are widely reported in the newspapers and social media.
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