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Masagana 99 was an agricultural program of then Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos to increase rice production among Filipino farmers. [1] [2] [3] The program was launched in 1973 at a time the country was experiencing a rice supply shortage.
The term is a play on the "Oedipus complex" of psychoanalytic theory.While earlier use of the term elsewhere in the world has been suggested, the term was independently coined by Behn Cervantes [10] to criticise the construction of the Cultural Center of the Philippines during the buildup to the 1969 presidential election campaign, during which Imelda Marcos' husband Ferdinand Marcos was ...
The grandest infrastructure projects of Marcos's first term, especially the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex, also marked the beginning of what critics would call Ferdinand Marcos and First Lady Imelda Marcos's Edifice complex, with grand public infrastructures projects prioritized for public funding because of their propaganda value.
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos was born on September 11, 1917, in the town of Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, to Mariano Marcos (1897–1945) and Josefa Edralin (1893–1988). [70] Mariano Marcos was a lawyer and congressman from Ilocos Norte , Philippines. [ 71 ]
Project Santa Barbara was a missile program developed under the administration of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos (1965–86) during the Cold War. The first successful launch was in 1972. The project was discontinued due to undisclosed reasons.
Creating a national committee to initiate and conduct the first national seminer-workshop on monitoring and evaluation for effective program and project implementation July 24, 1982 821 Creating the Markets Infrastructure Development Council vesting the same with powers and functions, providing appropriations therefor and for other purposes
Marcos built his campaign on the promise that his administration would change the Philippine economy and government. Marcos had inherited an economy was growing at a steady pace, but he gave the impression of even quicker results by using foreign loans to fund projects. He attracted a new breed of economic managers to work under his administration.
Ferdinand Marcos's second term as President of the Philippines began on December 30, 1969, as a result of his winning the 1969 Philippine presidential election on November 11, 1969. Marcos was the first and last president of the Third Philippine Republic to win a second full term.