- "Unholy trinity" = (WB, IMF and WTO)
- urban decay = urban blight
- DILG = dep't w/ the highest number of cases in the Ombudsman
- jihad = strive
- Human development = process of expanding human choices
- Social movement = may effect or resist change
- manananggal = self-segmenting viscera sucker
- fourth estate = media
- book review = suring aklat
- pamangkin = short for "para namang akin"
- class consciouness = opposite of false consciouness
- debt trap = debt cycle = debt crisis
- illegitimate debt = odious debt
- international division of labor = global assembly line
- majority = 50% + 1
- lupang ninuno = ancestral land
- lupaing ninuno = ancestral domain
- debureaucratization = new public administration = reinventing gov't
- hot money = portfolio investment =
speculative investment = indirect investment
