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Maricar Pedong Literature Review
Maricar Pedong Literature Review
LITERATURE REVIEW
Duterte has expressed his desire to build on the stellar accomplishments of the administration
of o=outgoing president Benigno Aquino III, particularly the latter’s good governance and Asia”
into “Asia’s rising tiger.” Of his ten-point socioeconomic agenda revealed on Monday, June 20,
for example, his first point was to continue and maintain current macroeconomic policies,
including fiscal, monetary and trade policies. However, he intends to depart from Aquino’s
legacy of instituting slow but steady macroeconomic reform by advancing an economic agenda
which seeks to upgrade, accelerate as well as expand the government’s basic services that shall
render the country’s macroeconomic environment more conducive for the flourishing of
businesses, influx of investments and conduct of seamless trade within the country and the greater
ASEAN region.