random points

• 'development community' = network of people professionally concerned with development (Colin Leys)
• invisible hand = allots fortune (winners) and misfortune (losers) to people
• power = ability to get others to do what they otherwise wouldn't do (Robert Dahl)
• imperialist wars = hegemonic wars
• input = sangkap
• output = produkto
• gahum = hegemony
• kontra-gahum = counter-hegemony
• mini-depression, great recession = feel-good terms, to avoid comparisons with the calamitous impact of the Great Depression (Amado Doronila)
• Apolinario Mabini = first Philippine secretary of foreign affairs (1898)
• overseas Filipino workers = overseas Filipino investors (in recognition of their contribution to the Philippine economy)