Ralph Gonzalez Recto is a Filipino politician currently serving as the 33rd Secretary of Finance under President Bongbong Marcos since January 12,2024. He previously served as the representative for Batangas' 6th district and as the House Deputy Speaker from 2022 to 2024.
The University of the Philippines School of Economics is a degree-granting unit of the University of the Philippines Diliman (U.P.),where it occupies the buildings of the Philippine Center for Economic Development (PCED). The school offers two Bachelor of Science degrees,two master's degrees and the Ph.D. in economics.
Arthur "Art" Cua Yap is a Filipino politician who is the former governor of Bohol from 2019 to 2022. He was the secretary of the Department of Agriculture under the Arroyo administration from 2004 to 2005 and from 2006 to 2007. He became a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines,representing the 3rd District of Bohol from 2010 to 2019.
Cayetano "Dondon" Paderanga Jr. was a Filipino economist and former Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA),a cabinet-level agency of the Philippine government responsible for economic development and planning.
Arsenio Molina Balisacan is a Filipino economist and academician currently serving as the Secretary of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). Balisacan first served as the NEDA Secretary from May 2012 to January 2016 under the Benigno Aquino III administration. He then served under the Duterte administration as the Chairperson of the Philippine Competition Commission from February 1,2016 to June 30,2022. He was again appointed as NEDA Secretary under the Bongbong Marcos administration. During his first term in 2012,he concurrently served as NEDA Secretary and as Chairman of the Boards of the Philippine Statistics Authority,Philippine Institute for Development Studies,Philippine Center for Economic Development,and Public-Private Partnership Center.
Takehiko Nakao was a Japanese civil servant who served as the ninth president of the Asian Development Bank between 2013 and early 2020. He is the Chairman of the Institute,Mizuho Research &Technologies Ltd,and a board member (external) of the Daiichi Life Insurance Ltd. He teaches international economic policies and development economics as Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Tokyo University and National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Tokyo).
Central Visayas is an administrative region in the Philippines,numerically designated as Region VII. It consists of four provinces and three highly urbanized cities.
The Negros Island Region,also abbreviated and officially designated as NIR,was a short-lived administrative region in the Philippines which comprised the provinces of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental,both of which cover the island of Negros,currently proposed for re-establishment. It existed from May 29,2015,to August 9,2017. Local officials and the Consultative Committee to Review the 1987 Constitution have proposed to reinstate Negros as a region or state of a Philippine federation.
Silvestre Hernando Bello III is a Filipino businessman and lawyer from Isabela,who served as the Secretary of the Philippines' Department of Labor and Employment,and concurrently Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process,under the Duterte administration. Bello was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte to replace Rosalinda Baldoz in the secretaryship.
Ernesto "Ernie" Corpus Abella is a Filipino businessman,writer and former evangelist who served in the Duterte administration as Presidential Spokesperson (2016–2017) and Undersecretary for Strategic Communications and Research of the Department of Foreign Affairs (2017–2021). He ran unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in the 2022 Philippine presidential election.
Leoncio "Jun" Badilla Evasco Jr. is a Filipino politician who served as Secretary of the Cabinet from 2016 to 2018 and is currently the Presidential Adviser on Streamlining of Government Processes under the Duterte administration since 2020. Before he was appointed as the Cabinet secretary,he was the Mayor of Maribojoc town in Bohol from 2007 to 2016. He was an ordained priest,being ordained in 1970,when he joined the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing,the New People's Army,in 1974.
DuterteNomics is a catch-all term referring to the socioeconomic policies of Rodrigo Duterte,the 16th president of the Philippines. A significant part of these policies include the development of infrastructure and industries in the Philippines.
Menardo Ilasco Guevarra is a Filipino lawyer serving as Solicitor General of the Philippines since 2022 under President Bongbong Marcos. He previously served as the Secretary of Justice under President Rodrigo Duterte and as a commissioner of the Philippine Competition Commission under President Benigno Aquino III. Before joining the government,he was involved in private litigation practice as a founding partner of the Medialdea Ata Bello Guevarra &Suarez law firm since 1990. He was also an active faculty member at his alma mater Ateneo de Manila University,where he graduated in 1974.
Claire Dennis S. Mapa is a Filipino economist and statistician. He is the National Statistician and Civil Registrar General (NSCRG) of the Philippine Statistics Authority with a rank of Undersecretary as appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte. He succeeds Lisa Grace Bersales whose tenure ended on 22 April 2019.
Karl Kendrick Tiu Chua is a Filipino economist who served as the Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) and Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning under the Duterte administration from 2021 to 2022. He was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as acting secretary in April 2020,and became the official secretary on June 2,2021,succeeding Ernesto Pernia. A former World Bank senior economist,he previously served as an undersecretary of the Department of Finance.
The Cebu–Bohol Bridge is a proposed bridge which will connect the island provinces of Cebu and Bohol in the Philippines. The construction cost is estimated to be around ₱90 billion.
