{"id":311,"date":"2026-09-21T16:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new-pages.upd.edu.ph\/ilsj\/?p=311"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:02:12","slug":"the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-myths-and-realities-of-philippine-trade-and-economy-during-the-marcos-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new-pages.upd.edu.ph\/ilsj\/2026\/09\/21\/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-myths-and-realities-of-philippine-trade-and-economy-during-the-marcos-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY: MYTHS AND REALITIES OF PHILIPPINE TRADE AND ECONOMY DURING THE MARCOS REGIME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/new-pages.upd.edu.ph\/ilsj\/2026\/08\/27\/2026-edition\/\">Volume 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title has-xx-large-font-size\">THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY: MYTHS AND REALITIES OF PHILIPPINE TRADE AND ECONOMY DURING THE MARCOS REGIME<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><br><br>Samantha Tirthdas van der Kleij<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>DOI:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-default\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">The past few election cycles in the Philippines have seen a resurgence in popularity of rhetoric hailing the regime of Ferdinand Marcos Sr. as the \u201cgolden years of the Philippine economy.\u201d While this exaltation of the Marcos Sr economic legacy is perhaps most apparent on social media platforms in a torrent of disinformation, there are also economists (albeit in the minority) who still hold a generally positive view of the regime\u2019s economic legacy, including in terms of its trade reforms (for example, see generally the work of economist and Marcos-era technocrat Gerardo P. Sicat, 2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/new-pages.upd.edu.ph\/ilsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2026\/09\/06-THE-GOOD-THE-BAD-THE-UGLY-MYTHS-AND-REALITIES-OF-PHILIPPINE-TRADE-AND-ECONOMY-DURING-THE-MARCOS-REGIME.pdf\"><strong>R<\/strong>EAD MORE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volume 1 Samantha Tirthdas van der Kleij DOI: The past few election cycles in the Philippines have seen a resurgence in popularity of rhetoric hailing the regime of Ferdinand Marcos Sr. as the \u201cgolden years of the Philippine economy.\u201d While this exaltation of the Marcos Sr economic legacy is perhaps most apparent on social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"article","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-volume-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-pages.upd.edu.ph\/ilsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-pages.upd.edu.ph\/ilsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-pages.upd.edu.ph\/ilsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-pages.upd.edu.ph\/ilsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-pages.upd.edu.ph\/ilsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new-pages.upd.edu.ph\/ilsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/new-pages.upd.edu.ph\/ilsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-pages.upd.edu.ph\/ilsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-pages.upd.edu.ph\/ilsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-pages.upd.edu.ph\/ilsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}