Governor-General Leonard Wood’s neoliberal agenda of privatizing public assets stymied, 1921-1927

After a serious fiscal and financial crisis erupted in 1920 to 1921 (in the wake of the termination of World War I), the new American Governor General to the Philippines, U.S. Army Major General Leonard Wood, promised in his inaugural address to privatize the country’s government-owned and controlle...

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Main Author: Vicente Angel S. Ybiernas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Philippines 2012-06-01
Series:Social Science Diliman
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Online Access:http://www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/socialsciencediliman/article/view/3359/3128