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What does a nation do when its civilian political leadership is popular but wrong?

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Since the eighties, when I regularly visited Thailand as a consultant on alternative development models for the United Nations University, I used that economy as some sort of benchmark against which our own economy could be compared. We had, at that time, basically the same population size, the same socio-economic profile, the same level of per capita income and, until the recent years, the same dollar exchange rate.

But even then, I noted a lot of difference.
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Roxas said "the Philippines wants the minimum access volume to be country specific," while Thailand wants it to be on a "first-come, first-served" basis.
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What does a nation do when its civilian political leadership is popular but wrong?

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Since the eighties, when I regularly visited Thailand as a consultant on alternative development models for the United Nations University, I used that economy as some sort of benchmark against which our own economy could be compared. We had, at that time, basically the same population size, the same socio-economic profile, the same level of per capita income and, until the recent years, the same dollar exchange rate.

But even then, I noted a lot of difference.
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Roxas said "the Philippines wants the minimum access volume to be country specific," while Thailand wants it to be on a "first-come, first-served" basis.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805266 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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