Students with the highest accumulated points per section

• DS 100A = Balmes and Doctor
• DS 100A = Sigue
• DS 112A = Arceo
• DS 112B = Magtalas
  
  
  

random readings

• Patayin ang ilaw = http://www.rd.com/slideshows/5-moves-for-a-longer-life/#slideshow=slide4
• Apple cider vinegar =
  http://www.homeremediesweb.com/apple_cider_vinegar_health_benefits.php
• Minimum wage = http://www.nwpc.dole.gov.ph/pages/statistics/stat_current_regional.html
• Current labor statistics = http://www.bles.dole.gov.ph/PUBLICATIONS/Current%20Labor%20Statistics/HTML/table%20of%20contents.html
  

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Ponsaran's tentative academic load (AY 2012-2013)

• DS 127 (Human Ecology and Development)
  
• DS 126 (Governance and Development)
  
• DS 123 (Filipino Health and Development)
  
• Econ 115 (Philippine Economic History)
  
• DS 121 (Poverty and Underdevelopment)
  
• NSTP (Urban Development)
  

DS 112-A (letter of request template)

University of the Philippines Manila
Department of Social Sciences
Development Studies Program

March __, 2012


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Dear ________________________:


Greetings of peace!

We are students of the University of the Philippines Manila. As a course requirement in Development Studies 112 (Development in the Third World), we are tasked to conduct a short interview through email about pressing issues and concerns surrounding Third World economics, politics, and culture. We believe that your expertise and experience could help us in this endeavor.

The purpose of this interview is to gather critical and up-to-date insights concerning the topic and consolidate this as part of our class readings.

You may also contact us through the number provided below. The following is our set of questions for this e-mail interview.

Thank you very much and may this request merit your reply.


Questions:
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Sincerely,

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Noted by:

Prof. John N. Ponsaran
Development Studies Program

jnponsarn@yahoo.com

March 15-16 agenda

• DS 100 A = long exam (http://jk22b.blogspot.com/2012/03/reading-materials-ds-100.html)
• DS 100 B = -do- ; political and economic isms test
  
• NSTP = continuation of the debate
  
• DS 112 A = speech (please refer to the previous blog post)
  
• DS 112 B = -do-
  

DS 112A&B (March 16)

• rural electrification and community development (Plares)
  
• shelter security and community development (Julynnie Lomocso)
  
• primary health care and community development (Tolentino)
  
• sustainable communities (Vargas)
  
• community policing (Rojales)
  
• community safety (Soriano)
  
  (English or Filipino, 6-7 minutes, research and deliver well)
  

Reading materials (DS 100 A&B)

• Poverty as business' enemy (M. Mangahas) - online
  
• Can this country be a nation (J. Luz) - online
  
• Transparency leads to competitiveness (G. Luz) - online
  
• Rethinking Development (R. Simbulan) - a chapter from Foundation in Behavioral Science - library
  

Agenda March 12-13

• DS 100 A = lecture about Philippine fisherfolk situationer
  
• DS 100 B = lecture about Philippine IP situationer
  
• NSTP = debate about the anatomy of charter change
  -bicameralism
  -parliamentarism
  -federalism
  -economic liberalization (lifting of citizenship restriction)
  
• DS 112 A = graded recitation and lecture about community organizing
  
• DS 112 B = graded recitation and lecture about community organizing
  

Agenda (Mar 8 and 9)

• DS 100-A = speeches (Filipino, 5 minutes, wear black, minimum references: 5, research and deliver well)
  Senson (gross social product)
  Encarnacion (green GNP)
  Doctor (gross national happiness)
  Castillo (human development index)
  Balmes (human misery index)
  
• DS 100-B = speeches (-do-)
  Yasay (gross social product)
  Sigue (green GNP)
  Panagsagan (gross national happiness)
  Carretero (human development index)
  Dabalos (human misery index)
  
• NSTP = ACLE on social movements (part 2)
  
• DS 112-A = graded recitation about community organizing in the Third World (research well)
  
• DS 112-B = graded recitation about community organizing in the Third World (research well)
  

Agenda March 5-6

• DS 100A = continuation of speeches - Rumbaoa (political capital), del Rosario (symbolic capital), Yu (cultural capital), Manalo (natural capital); long exam (Models/Theories of Development and the Concept of Social Development by Alfonzo Guzman, Historical Structuralism by Theodore Cohn)
  
  
• DS 100B = long exam (Models/Theories of Development and the Concept of Social Development by Alfonzo Guzman, Historical Structuralism by Theodore Cohn, political cosplay hand-outs)
  

• NSTP = career orientation (part 2); long test (Development Studies curriculum)
  
  
• DS 112A = speeches (7 minutes, Filipino/English, research and deliver well)
  Merits and demerits of multiple intelligences (Somera)
  Geniocracy (Julienne Lomocso)
  Weightless economy (Miole)
  
  
• DS 112B = speeches (7 minutes, Filipino/English, research and deliver well)
  Cultural bias of IQ tests (Gabawa)
  Gold-collar workers (Santos)
  Plight of the knowledge workers (Daquis)
  
  

Optional output (concept map)

• Belleza (dependent development)
  
• Claveria (borrowed growth)
  
• Dela Rosa (highly indebted poor countries)
  
• Lomuntad (debt crisis)
  
• Pondoyo (bilateral aid)
  
• Rumbaoa (multilateral aid)
  
• Senson (benevolent hegemons)
  
• Del Rosario (denationalization)
  
• Yu (declinist)
  
• Alejo (Asian financial crisis)
  
• Babat (horizontal integration)
  
• Balingit (vertical integration)
  
• Buenaventura (Adjustment with a Human Face)
  
• Esamane (cross conditionality)
  
• Flores (embedded liberalism)
  
• Jansalin (elite theory)
  
• Javier (regime theory)
  
• Macalalag (prisoners' dilemma)
  
• Masesar (OECD)
  
• Panagsagan (NIEO)
  
• Pilarta (negative freedom)
  
• Sese (marginalization)
  
• Singuillo (status crystallization)
  
• Biolena (Intraindustry trade)
  
• Callanta (Intrafirm trade)
  
• Del Rosario (Human Development Report)
  
• Duenas (greenfield investment)
  
• Fabito (reciprocity)
  
• Joven (panda diplomacy)
  
• Lomuntad (pingpong diplomacy)
  
• Mariano (water diplomacy)
  
• Medidas (food diplomacy)
  
• Miole (portfolio investment)
  
• Quiogue (backward linkage)
  
• Ruiz (forward linkage)
  
• Santos (orthodox liberalism)
  
• Somera (The World is Flat)
  
• Almirante (currency war)
  
• Caballes (End of Poverty)
  
• Dela Paz (Poor Economics)
  
• Estole (planned poverty)
  
• Factor (culture of poverty)
  
• Gile (petrodollars)
  
• Guzman (Alterglobalization)
  
• Palomares (low politics)
  
• Reyes (high politics)
  
• Santos (American Dream)
  
• Sapalo (polemics)
  
• Daquis (Open World)
  
• Cossid (No Logo)
  
  Submission: March 1(Thursday), DSS, 10-11:30 am only
  

Agenda Feb 27-28, March 1-2

• DS 100-A (M) = long exam (Chapter on Historical Structuralist Perspective from the Global Political Economy: Theory & Practice by Theodore Cohn) BABALA: mag-aral mabuti
  
• DS 100-B (M) = -do- BABALA: mag-aral mabuti
  
• NSTP (T) = career orientation (part 1)
  
• DS 112-A (T) = graded recitation about tourism, tourism industry and tourism development (read & study well)
  
• DS 112-B (T) = tourism cosplay (tasking TBA)
  
• DS 100-A (Th) = speeches (6 minutes per speaker; Filipino; research, practice and deliver well)
  Belleza (human capital)
  Pondoyo (social capital)
  Rumbaoa (political capital)
  Del Rosario (symbolic capital)
  Yap (economic capital)
  Yu (cultural capital)
  Manalo (natural capital)
  
• DS 100-B (Th) = political cosplay (tasking TBA)
  
• NSTP (F) = ACLE on social movements in the Philippines (tasking TBA)
  
• DS 112-A (F) = long exam (chapter on Economic Geography from Human Geography by Marsh and Alagona)
• DS 112-B (F) = -do-
  

For DS 100 A&B (Take the test online)

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test
http://www.politicalcompass.org/faq

Feb 20-24

• DS 100 A (M) = political cosplay
  
• DS 100 B (M) = environmental cosplay
  
• NSTP (T) = cultural cosplay - part 1 (Third World)
  
• DS 112 A (T) = tourism cosplay
  
• DS 112 B (T) = mini-reporting and short quizzes on tourism industry
  
• DS 100 A (Th) = political cosplay (continuation)
  
• DS 100 B (Th) = long test about political economy of the environment based on the cosplay presentation
  
• NSTP (F) = cultural cosplay - part 2 (Philippines)
  
• DS 112 A (F)= long test (2nd set of Third World Resurgence articles)
  
• DS 112 B (F) = long test (2nd set of Third World Resurgence articles)
  
  
  

Video library

Banking and Money
Current Economics
Credit Crisis
Currency
History


http://www.khanacademy.org/*

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*recommended by Prof. Ruth Shane Erive-Legaspi

Feb 16-17

• DS 100 A = long test (3 articles from Third World Resurgence)
  
• DS 100 B = do
  
• NSTP = ACLE on contemporary local socio-economic issues; submission of the flipchart output by pair
  
• DS 112 A = long test (5 articles from Third World Resurgence)
• DS 112 B = -do-

MBA

http://www.quickmba.com/

DS 100 A&B guide questions (based on the three Third World Resurgence articles)

• What are the structural pitfalls of the government's poverty/food targeting system?
  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitfall
• Discuss the adverse effects of vertical integration in the global food systems to marginalized communities?
  http://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/verticalintegration.asp
• What are the hazards of debt-financed consumption that predominates US economy?
  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e8a09ac0-5859-11e0-9b8a-00144feab49a.html#axzz1mLQE3Fz4
  

DS 100-B magazine output

• Pilarta, Flores, Villarin, Abrenica (development work)
• Sigue, Orlanda, Velasco (development aid)
• Dela Rosa, Yasay, Batu (development diplomacy)
• Dabalos, Panagsagan, Renti Cruz (development ethics)
• Gumabol, Perezes, Briones (development research)
• Masesar, Arboneda, Alcaide, Reyes (development studies)
• Gavino, Garvida, Macalalag (development administration)
• Buenaventura, Alejo, Singuillo (development indicators)
• Claveria, Carretero, et. al. (development assistance)
• Babat, Sese, R. Reyes, et.al. (development planning)
  
  Deadline: February 23 (Thursday)