Fidel v.

Ramos Speech

1. Renewal of society
2. Economy Growth
3. Government should provide
4. Opening economy for foreign
5. Should supply for agriculture
6. Agriculture is foundation
7. Need agrarian law
8. Develop new friendship
9. Buhayin ang diwa ng bansa
10. Dapat ay kumilos sa pagsisikap
11. Yakapin ang bansa.

Administrations

The agrarian reform policies of the Ramos administration focused on

accelerating the direct land transfer and non-land transfer programs through
adopting more rational and simpler operating procedures and a fair,
expeditious and inexpensive settlement of agrarian disputes. It focused in the
adoption of a fair land valuation formula and prompt payment of just
compensation to encourage landowners to cooperate and support agrarian
reform. The administration also encouraged the development of alternative
schemes of landowner compensation to motivate them to invest in rural-based
industries that have strong linkages with agriculture. It also adopted a
progressive agricultural land tax to encourage smaller landholdings among
large landowners, a land conversion tax to discourage land conversion and idle
land tax to encourage landowners to cultivate the land. These taxes were also
needed to augment the Agrarian Reform Fund aside from mobilizing both local
and foreign resources. The administration also pursued for the amendment of
Section 63 of the CARL making the ARF a revolving fund and increasing the
fund to P100 Billion. It also planned to increase the composition of the DAR’s
Adjudication Board’s full-time members from three to nine and upgrading their
salaries. The budget of DAR therefore had to be increased to cover
reorganization costs. The protection of ARBs whose lands were converted to
commercial, industrial or residential use by making them shareholders or co-
investors of the industrial/commercial venture was also one of CARP’s major
agenda. Also, the CARP bureaucracy had to be motivated further for more
successful results and its partnership at the provincial level with various
government and non-government organizations, local government units, farmer
beneficiaries, landowners, legislature, media and the academe has to be
enhanced. Strengthened coordination among agencies implementing CARP,
the legislature, judiciary and LGUs were also being pursued.

As president he purged the national police force of corrupt officers; encouraged

family-planning practices to curb the growth of the country’s population; and
liberalized the Philippines’ heavily protected economy in order to spur economic
growth. Under his leadership, the Philippines became known as the "Asian
Tiger." He was widely credited for reviving the country's economy, and it grew
at a brisk pace of seven percent annually through the mid-1990s. Admirers of
his businesslike approach called him "Steady Eddie," and many foreign
investors poured money into the country. He also ended crippling regulation of
the telecommunications, banking, insurance, shipping and oil industries. He
meanwhile continued his efforts to deregulate major industries that were
dominated by a handful of large companies and to improve the government’s
inefficient tax-collection system. These reforms helped revitalize the
Philippines’ economy, which emerged from years of stagnation to grow at a
rapid rate in 1994–97. The country was thus able to weather a severe business
downturn that crippled national economies across Southeast Asia in 1998. It
was also during his presidency that the Philippines became a member of the
World Trade Organization which is an organization that intends to supervise
and liberalize international trade. He also stabilized the post-people power
chaos that engulfed the country at the time and created the Department of
Energy. His administration reached peace agreements with two long-active
guerrilla insurgencies, the communist New People’s Army and the Muslim
separatists of the Moro National Liberation Front. making life in the Philippines
more stable than it had been in decades

Sources: https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1996/11/19/speech-of-president-ramos-at-a-forum-on-
the-1998-philippine-presidency/

https://www.iatp.org/sites/default/files/Environment_and_Natural_Resources_Pursued_Econ.htm