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Ma. Gladys Sta. Rita, MPA, CSEE author of Running A Bureaucracy: A Guidebook for Local Government Unit Administrators, Other Public Managers, and Elected Officials was Bulacan's provincial administrators for 17 years before her retirement from government service this year. The book is a Centennial Publication of the University of the Philippines-National College of Public Administration and Governance. She is currently consultant to the USAID projects in the Philippines through the Health Policy Development Program of the UPecon Foundation. For more info about the book, visit http://www.lguadministrators.com/.

Participative Planning and Budgeting

As President Noynoy Aquino tells the entire nation how we, as a people fare in his State of the Nation Address, I write fresh from
 

Tapping Old Hands in Local Governance

Winning local candidates who are on their first term are teeming with excitement as they begin their term of office. And government agencies responsible for ...
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Asian Democracy in Focus

BALI, INDONESIA— The Philippines had given the world one of the most memorable lessons in democracy. People Power is very much our own brand of ...
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Spines’ the Man: Ushering in a new, majestic Pangasinan

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Child of the clan: New blood from the old hands

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ZaNorte in focus: Above all, the people

There is something strikingly commonplace about the slogan — “Above all, the people”. It’s like your favorite telenovela ditty. You keep hearing it everywhere. It ...
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Running a bureaucracy

I have realized that there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to running government. You see, I was provincial administrator of Bulacan ...
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Finally, Some Good News

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A Crisis, An Opportunity

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In the 1970's, the phenomenon that is international migrant work started to become most palpable to us who are in their late 30's and 40-somethings

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San Juan City Representative JV Ejercito today urged the Filipino people to be heedful of Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez’s claims of fully ‘revamping’ the bureaucracy,

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Reputation and credibility are very important for media practitioners. They live and build a career on these two elements. What happens then to

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The approval of the $434 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) grant for development projects in the Philippines is a clear indication of America’s trust or
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