John Grahl Birth date: (August 1946) Birthplace: Newham, East London Contribution: Grahl is a member of the working

group for an 'Alternative Economic Policy in Europe', and author of 'European Monetary Union: Problems of Legitimacy, Development and Stability' (Kogan Page, London, 2001), and After Maastricht: a Guide to European Monetary Union (Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1997). He has published numerous, articles on economics, such as those in the left wing 'New Left Review' and the French monthly 'Le Monde Diplomatique'. Kamer Daron Acemolu [ademou] Birth date: September 3, 1967 in Birth Place: Istanbul, Turkey. Contribution: He is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal. He is among the 10 most cited economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. His most cited article is "Colonial origins of comparative development" (2001).His principal interests are political economy, development economics, economic growth, technology, income and wage inequality, human capital and training, and labour economics. His most recent works concentrate on the role of institutions in economic development and political economy. Hernando De Soto Birth Date: June 3, 1941 Birth Place: Arequipa, Peru Contribution: Between 1988 and 1995, he and the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) were responsible for some four hundred initiatives, laws, and regulations that changed Peru's economic system Jeremy Rifkin Birth Date: January 26, 1945 Birth Place: Denver, Colorado Contribution: Rifkin has advised both the European Commission and the European Parliament. Rifkin has also advised Prime Minister Jos Luis Rodrguez Zapatero of Spain during its presidency of the European Union. Rifkin also served as an adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Prime Minister Jose Socrates of Portugal, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, and Prime Minister Janez Jana of Slovenia, during their respective European Council Presidencies, on issues related to the economy, climate change, and energy security. Rifkin is currently working with European officials to help shape a Third Industrial Revolution long-term economic development plan for the European Union. Dennis J. Snower Birth Date: October 14, 1950 Birth Place: Germany

Contribution :He has advised various European governments and international organizations. He has published in numerous academic journals. Hilary Clinton Birth Date: 26 October 1947 Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Contribution: In January 1993, Bill Clinton appointed Hillary Clinton to head the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, hoping to replicate the success she had in leading the effort for Arkansas education reform. Dr. Avery Shenfeld Birth Date: Birth Place: Contribution: Avery Shenfeld is a Managing Director and Chief Economist with thewholesale banking arm of CIBC, having been with the firm since 1993.He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Avery follows economic developments and their implications for financial markets. Hewas recently named by Bloomberg as one of the top five forecasters ofthe US economy in the past two years, is a two time winner of Dow-Jones Market Watchs award for most accurate US forecaster, and has been ranked by fixed income investors among the leading five economists in Canada. James M. Buchanan Birth Date: October 3, 1919 Birth Place: Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States Contribution: an American economist known for his work on public choice theory, for which he received the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Buchanan's work initiated research on how politicians' self-interest and non-economic forces affect government economic policy. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute. Robert Blohm Birth Date: May 27, 1948 Birth Place: Trenton, New Jersey Contribution: an American and Canadian investment banker, economist and statistician, currently a professor of economics at China's Central University of Finance and Economics.[1] He helped expand the Japanese capital market in the 1980s to Canadian governments, corporations, utilities and banks. In the early 1990s he argued widely in the US and Canadian press against the economic feasibility of Quebec's separation from Canada, particularly in a series of opinion articles in The Wall Street Journal. He coined the term "the internet economy" in a Wall Street Journalopinion article by that title in 1996. In the later 1990s he published articles in the general and trade press against restructuring the wholesale electric industry into a centralized spot market. Blohm has since helped the North American Electric Reliability Council develop risk-based standards for reliably operating and planning the electric system in a competitive market.

Elisha Andrews Birth Date: January 10, 1844 Birth Place: Hinsdale, New Hampshire, U.S. Contribution: He served in Connecticut regiments during the Civil War. Graduating from Brown University in 1870 and from the Newton Theological Institution in 1874, he preached for one year and then was president of Denison University from 187579. He was professor of homiletics at Newton Theological Institution from 187982; professor of history and political economy at Brown University from 188288; professor of political economy and finance at Cornell University from 188889; and he served as the president of Brown University from 1889 until 1898. He resigned as president
of Brown in 1897 because of criticism by trustees of his advocacy of free silver but at that time withdrew his resignation.He was the superintendent of schools for Chicago from 1898 to 1900, and then became chancellor of the University of Nebraska in 1900. He retired from academic life as chancellor emeritus of the University of Nebraska on January 1, 1909. In 1892, he was an American commissioner to the Brussels monetary conference and was a strong supporter of international bimetallism. He became a member of the corporation of Brown University in 1900 and was made president of the Association of State Universities in 1904. Andrews died at his home in Interlachen, Florida in 1917. Nouriel Roubini

Contribution: Block now holds the Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans. From 1979 to 1991, he was the Senior Economist with the Fraser Institute. In addition to his faculty position at Loyola, Block is also a Senior Faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics. His most famous work is Defending the Undefendable, of which John Stossel said, "Defending the Undefendable... opened my eyes to the beauties of libertarianism. It explains that so much of what is assumed to be evil--is not." Eric Britton Birth Date: 27 June 1938 Birth Place: Boston, Massachusett Contribution: Through his own consultancy, EcoPlan International, Britton undertakes projects which mainly relate to improving urban transport sustainability.The Commons: Open Society Sustainability Initiative is the activity for which he is probably best known at the moment. An umbrella for related discussion groups and online resources relating to sustainable urban transport, The Commons and its related online journal World Streets aim to promote and disseminate best practice.Much of his work involves co-ordinating the collaborative New Mobility Agenda, which encompasses a number of possible transport solutions, including Car Free Days, carsharing, bikesharing and shared spaceprojects.

Birth Date: March 29, 1959 Birth Place: Istanbul, Turkey Contribution: Roubini predicted that the global economy would begin recovering near the end of 2009, but the U.S. economy is likely to grow only about one percent annually during the next two years, which is less than the three percent normal "trend." He noted that the Fed is "now embarked on a policy in which they are in effect directly monetizing about half of the budget deficit," but that as of now "monetization is not inflationary," as banks were holding much of the money themselves and not relending it. When these attitudes reverse at the end of the recession, that would be time for an "exit strategy, of mopping up that liquidity" and taking some of the money back out of circulation, "so it doesnt just bid up house prices and stock values in a new bubble. And that will be 'very, very tricky indeed,'" he stated.Also, in late July, he warned that if no clear exit strategy is outlined and implemented, there was the potential of a perfect storm: fiscal deficits, rising bond yields, higher oil prices, weak profits, and a stagnant labor market, which combined could "blow the recovering world economy back into a double-dip recession. Walter Block Birth Date: 21 August 1941 Birth Place: New York

Friedrich Hayek Birth Date: 8 May 1899 Birth Place: Vienna, Austria-Hungary Contribution: Hayek is considered to be a major economist and political philosopher of the twentieth century. Along with his mentor Ludwig von Mises, he was an important contributor to the Austrian school of economic thought. Hayek's account of how changing prices communicate information which enable individuals to coordinate their plans is widely regarded as an important achievement in economics. He also contributed to the fields of systems thinking, jurisprudence, neuroscience and the history of ideas. Christine Lagarde Birth Date: 1 January 1956 Birth Place: Paris, France Contribution: A noted antitrust and labour lawyer, Lagarde made history as the first female chair of the international law firm Baker & McKenzie. On 16 November 2009, The Financial Times ranked her the best minister of finance of the Eurozone. On 28 June 2011, she was named as the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund for a five-year term, starting on 5 July 2011, replacing Dominique.

This made her the 11th European running to head the IMF. In 2011, Lagarde was ranked the 9th most powerful woman in the world byForbes magazine. Joseph Stiglitz Birth Date: February 9, 1943 Birth Place: Gary, indiana Contribution: In addition to making numerous influential contributions to microeconomics, Stiglitz has played a number of policy roles. He served in the Clinton Administration as the chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors (1995 1997). At the World Bank, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist (1997 2000), in the time when unprecedented protest against international economic organizations started, most prominently with the Seattle WTO meeting of 1999. He was fired by the World Bank for expressing dissent with its policies.He was a lead author for theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Jeffrey Sachs Birth Date: November 5, 1954 Birth Place: Detroit, Michigan Contribution: American economist and Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. One of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University, Sachs became known for his role as an adviser to Eastern European and developing country governments in the implementation of so-called economic shock therapy during the transition from communism to a market system or during periods of economic crisis. Some of his recommendations have been considered controversial. Subsequently he has been known for his work on the challenges of economic development, environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation, debt cancellation, and globalization. Paul Samuelson Birth Date: May 15, 1915 Birth Place: Gary, Indiana, USA Contribution: An American economist, and the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Swedish Royal Academies stated, when awarding the prize, that he "has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory." Economic historian Randall E. Parker calls him the "Father of Modern Economics", and The New York Times considered him to be the "foremost academic economist of the 20th century." Eveline M. Burns Birth Date: March 16, 1900 Birth Place: London, England Contribution: She became professor of Social Work at Columbia University in 1928. In 1933, during the Great Depression, she returned to England in 1933 to study unemployment programs. In 1934, as a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Committee on Economic Security, she helped design the US Social Security Act of 1935. During the following years she served with the American Association for Social Security, the Social Welfare Committee of the YWCA and the Executive Board of the

Women's Club of New York. From 19391943 she was head of the economic security and health section of the National Resources Planning Board. In the 1940s, she was the Anna Shaw Lecturer at Bryn Mawr College and a professor at Columbia William Baumol Birth Date: February 26, 1922 Birth Place: New York City Contribution: an American economist. He is a professor of economics at New York University and is also affiliated with Princeton University. Baumol has written extensively about labor market and other economic factors that affect the economy. He also made valuable contributions to the history of economic thought. He is among the most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971. Kenneth Rogoff Birth Date: March 22, 1953 Birth Place: Rochester, New York Contribution: In 2002, Rogoff was in the spotlight because of a dispute with Joseph Stiglitz, a former Chief Economist of the World Bank and 2001 Nobel Prize winner. After Stiglitz had criticized the International Monetary Fund in his book, Globalization and Its Discontents, Rogoff responded with an Open Letter. Early in his career, Rogoff served as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Science as well as a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a former Guggenheim William Easterly Birth Date: September 7, 1957 Birth Place: West Virginia, USA Contribution: American economist, specializing in economic growth and foreign aid. He is a Professor of Economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and CoDirector of NYUs Development Research Institute. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution inWashington DC. Easterly is an associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Economic Growth, and of the Journal of Development Economics.Easterly maintained a blog called "Aid Watch" [1] where he posted regularly about aid related issues. He has also spoken at the Templeton Foundation with his contemporary Dambisa Moyo. As well as written in the press to respond to critics such as Jeffrey Sachs andHa-Joon Chang. George Soros Birth Date: August 12, 1930 Birth Place: Budapest, Hungary

Contribution: Hungarian-Americanbusiness magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management. Soros supports progressiveliberal causes. He is known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" because of his US$1 billion in investment profits during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis. Between 1979 and 2011, Soros gave away over $8 billion to human rights, public health, and education causes. He played a significant role in the peaceful transition from communism to capitalism in Hungary (198489), and provided Europe's largest higher education endowment to Central European University in Budapest. Soros is also the chairman of the Open Society Institute. Alan Greenspan Birth Date: March 6, 1926 Birth Place: New York City, New York, U.S. Contribution: an American economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. He currently works as a private advisor and provides consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC. First appointed Federal Reserve chairman by President Ronald Reagan in August 1987, he was reappointed at successive four-year intervals until retiring on January 31, 2006 after the second-longest tenure in the position.Greenspan came to the Federal Reserve Board from a successful consulting career, holding economic views influenced by Ayn Rand. Although he was subdued in his public appearances, favorable media coverage raised his profile to a point that several observers likened him to a "rock star". Lawrence S. Bacow Birth Date: August 24, 1951 Birth Place: Detroit, Michigan Contribution: an American lawyer and economist. He served as the twelfth president of Tufts University from September 2001 until August 2011. His research focuses primarily on environmental policy, and he held faculty appointments in five departments at Tufts. Bacow is an expert on non-adjudicatory approaches to the resolution of environmental disputes, and is well-known as an advocate of broader access to higher education and the importance of need-based financial aid He has been described as "perhaps the most respected university president in the country. Loretta Napoleoni Birth Date: 1955 Birth Place: Rome, Italy Contribution: She is an expert on the financing of terrorism and is well known internationally for having calculated the size of the terror economy. An active member of the feminist movement in the mid 1970s, she was a Fulbright scholar at Universitys Paul (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., and a Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics (LSE). She has a M.Phil.in Terrorism from LSE, a Master's in International Relations from SAIS, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rome.

Winnie Monsod Birth Date: July 29, 1940 Birth Place: Manila, Philippines Contribution: Monsod is best remembered for her role as Socio-economic Planning Secretary during the term of President Corazon Aquino and as a co-host in the GMA Network show Debate with Mare and Pare with former Pangasinan Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Oscar Orbos. Monsod is a respected economist and political commentator in the Philippines. In 2005, Monsod became an outspoken critic of Arroyo upon massive allegations of election cheating, graft and corruption. Eddie Villanueva Birth Date: October 6, 1946 Birth Place: Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines Contribution: Villanueva claimed to have "had a life-changing encounter with the Lord in 1973 while at the forefront of a leftist movement". At that time, he was also leading his family (and other families) in his home province of Bulacan in an uphill, protracted legal battle as he himself became a victim of a notorious land-grabbing syndicate. Five days after that "dramatic encounter with God", Bro. Eddie was brought face to face with a miracle he could never forget: the land-grabbers were arrested and detained. In 1978, Villanueva founded the Jesus Is Lord Church formerly named Jesus is Lord Fellowship, "which started with just 15 members from his Bible studies". In 2007, "JIL said it has over three million members today in 36 countries. Most members abroad are overseas Filipino workers and their families." Cayetano Paderanga, Jr. Birth Date: October 9, 1948 Birth Place: Camiguin Contribution: a Filipino economist and current Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), an independent cabinet-level agency of the Philippine government responsible for economic development and planning. Paderanga Jr.'s appointment was announced] on June 29, 2010 by President Benigno Aquino III.

Juanita Amatong Birth Date: March 23, 1935 Birth Place: Bindoy, Negros Oriental Contribution: is a member of the Monetary Board of the Philippines, a policy-making body of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines), and former Secretary of Finance in the Gloria MacapagalArroyo administration. Amatong has been in government service since 1971 starting

as Senior Financial Analyst. Prior to her appointment as Secretary, she served as Undersecretary and eventually as Acting Secretary of the Department of Finance. [1] She also served as the first woman executive director in the World Bank Group from the Philippines. Shalani Soledad Birth Date: April 24, 1980 Birth Place: Camarines Sur Contribution: Shalani is a member of Valenzuela City council from the second district since 2004. She is also a member of the committee for women and family affairs. In her first term, she was able to pass her self-authored "Early Childhood Ordinance" in the city. Diosdado Macapagal Birth Date: 28 September 1910 Birth Place: Lubao Contribution: His family was poor (hence his nickname "poor boy from Lubao"), but with the help of Honorio Ventura, the Secretary of Interior at that time, he studied law and graduated in the University of Santo Tomas and pursued and earned the postgraduate degree of Doctor of Civil Law and Ph.D. in Economics in the same university. During the Japanese occupation of World War II, Macapagal served as support to the anti-Japanese task force and as an intelligence liaison to the US guerillas. It was during this period that his first wife died. He later married Evangelina Macaraeg, the mother of current Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Joey Salceda Birth Date: Birth Place: Contribution Voted by foreign fund managers in Asiamoney's Annual Survey as "Best Analyst" in 1995 and "Best Economist" for four consecutive years from 1993 to 1996, Salceda brought to Congress a wealth of experience from the financial markets and the field of economics. During his term of office, he was able to enact three important measures. He was the principal sponsor and co-author, respectively, of Republic Act No. 8751 or the Countervailing Duty Act, Republic Act No. 8752 or the Anti-Dumping Duty Act, and Republic Act No. 8800 or the Safeguard Measures Act. These measures are critical in allowing the country realize the full benefits of its membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and at the same time protect domestic farmers. On January 18, 2008, Albay Governor Joey Salceda and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Estrella Alabastro relaunched one of the country's 4 P 18-million upper-air receiving equipment in Albay. The other upper-air receiving stations are in Laoag, Cebu, and Tanay, Rizal GMA

Contribution: Arroyo, a practicing economist, has made the economy the focus of her presidency. Early in her presidency, Arroyo implemented a controversial policy of holiday economics, adjusting holidays to form longer weekends with the purpose of boosting domestic tourism and allowing Filipinos more time with their families. Economic growth in terms of gross domestic product has averaged 4.6% during the Arroyo presidency from 2001 up to the end of 2005. This is higher than previous recent presidents when compared to the 3.8% average of Aquino, the 3.7% average of Ramos, and the 2.8% average of Joseph Estrada. Inflation during the Arroyo presidency has been the lowest since 1986, averaging 2.5%. Arroyo's handling of the economy has earned praise from observers including former US President Bill Clinton, who praised Arroyo for making "tough decisions" that put the Philippine economy back in shape Ralph Recto Birth Date: January 11, 1964 Birth Place: Quezon City, Philippines Contribution: Recto served as a member of the House of Representatives representing the 4th District of Batangas from 1992 to 2001. He was then elected to the Senate, serving from 2001 to 2007. In 2007, Recto run for reelection and lost because, as many analysts believed, he had authored the EVAT (Expaded Variable Added Tax) law. In July 2008 he was appointed to head the National Economic and Development Authority, but resigned from his position in August 2009 in preparation to run for senator in the 2010 election.[1] Recto won a seat in the Senate and was proclaimed as one of the winning senatorial candidates of the 2010 Senate elections. Perfecto V.Fernandez Birth Date: May 31, 1931 Birth Place: an Fabian, Pangasinan Contribution: He was a law professor, a writer of law books, bar reviewer and lecturer and political commentator in the Philippines. Fernandez was an authority on constitutional law and labor law, being part of the Philippine jurisprudence project (UP Law Center) and wrote a number of papers on labor law, constitutional law and libel Law. He was the former chief legal counsel of the University of the Philippines, a bar reviewer in UST, UE, FEU and UM.

Benigno Aquino III Birth Date: February 8, 1960 Birth Place: Manila Contribution: The Budget Impoundment and Control Act (SB 3121), wherein "impoundment" refers to the power of the President to refuse the release of funds appropriated by the Congress of the Philippines, is another bill Aquino is proud of;[18] he regretted,[18] however, that such power has

been used and abused by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, a result of which abuse has been the significant emasculation of Congress' ability to check the President's authority. Aquino filed this bill so the President would have to pass through Congress every time the President decides to impound part of the budget.Another significant Aquino contribution to the Philippines' corruption problem is Senate Bill 2035, which is the Preservation of Public Infrastructures bill, seeking to raise standards in the construction of all public infrastructures by penalizing contractors of defective infrastructures. The bill also requires the Bureau of Maintenance under the Department of Public Works and Highways to conduct periodic inspections of public infrastructures. Corazon Aquino Birth Date: January 25, 1933 Birth Place: Paniqui, Tarlac, Philippines Contribution: She moved quickly to tackle the issue of the US$26 billion foreign debt incurred by her predecessor. Aquino chose to honor all the debts that were previously incurred. Her decision proved to be unpopular but Aquino defended that it was the most practical move. It was crucial for the country at that time to regain the investors' confidence in the Philippine economy. Since 1986, the Aquino administration has paid off $4 billion of the country's outstanding debts to regain good international credit ratings and attract the attention of future markets. Nevertheless, the administration borrowed an additional $9 billion, increasing the national debt by $5 billion within six years time since the ouster of former President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 Birth Date: 1945 Birth Place: Contribution: Walden Bello is the founding director of Focus on the Global South, a policy research institute based in Bangkok, Thailand. Prior to that he was executive director of theInstitute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) in Oakland, California. Educated at Princeton University, where he did his doctorate in sociology in 1975, he subsequently taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a research associate with the Center for South East Asian Studies. He is also a guest professor at Binghamton University, where his lectures focus predominantly on issues of globalization Gelia Castillo Birth Date: March 3, 1928 Birth Place: Contribution: Dr. Castillo is a figure recognized internationally for her contributions as a social scientist. Her publications are major and definitive works on Philippine agricultural and rural development. These include All in a Grain of Rice, known to be the first book written by a Filipino about the Filipino farmer's response to new technology, and Beyond Manila, cited as an in-depth and analytical study of the actual problems and needs of the rural areas in relation to countryside development. These works gave Filipinos insight on their own rural development efforts and their attempt to reach the farmer and the rural poor.

Vicente Fabella Birth Date: May 7,1981 Birth Place:Pagsanjan Contribution: Vicente F. Fabella is a member of the Delta Mu delta a society of Northwestern University and also a member of the American Association of University Instructors in Accounting. He was also credited for having elevated public accountancy to the status of profession and the training of CPA as his lasting contribution in building the nation.

Cielito Habito Birth Date: April 20, 1953 Birth Place: Cabuyao Laguna Contribution is a Filipino economist, professor, and columnist. He served concurrently as the Director-General of theNational Economic and Development Authority and Socio-Economic Planning Secretary during the Ramos administration.[1]
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He is one of the 1991 Ten Outstanding Young Men Awardees for Economics. Benjamin Diokno Birth Date: March 31, 1948 Birth Place: Taal, Batangas Contribution: was Secretary of Budget and Management of the Philippines in the administration of President Joseph Estrada, from July 1998 until Estrada's ouster in January 2001.[1][2] Diokno also served as Undersecretary for Budget Operations at the Department of Budget and Management, form 1986-1991, during the administration of President Corazon Aquino.

Dante Canlas Birth Date: Birth Place: Contribution: a Filipino economist. He is a professor at the University of the Philippines School of Economics. He served as Socio-Economic Planning Secretary and the Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority from 2001-2002.

Onofre Corpus Birth Date: December 1, 1926)

Birth Place: Camiling, tarlac Contribution: Onofre D. Corpuz's researches were distinguished by their fidelity to the facts and a disdain for unsubstantiated claims, characteristics which brandish the reliability of his work. Corpuz was also famous for possessing the courage to challenge existing orthodoxies and familiar interpretations.He was elected as Academician in 1999, and later conferred as National Scientist in 2004. Felipe Medalla Birth Date: Birth Place: Contribution: is an economist, and was the Director General and Secretary of Socioeconomic planning of the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA). He is also a Professor at the University of the Philippines and specializes in public economics and urban and regional economics. He was also a Member of the Board of Directors of Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation, a subsidiary of the publiclylisted Metro Pacific Investments Corporation; and the Philippine National Oil Corporation (PNOC).

Pilipino. Ang lahat ng mga serbisyo na inalay nya sa kanyang mga benepisyaryo ay nagiging Masaya hanggang ngayon pat sa ibang mga tao.

Emmanuel De Dios Contribution: His research interests include institutions and economic development, history of economic thought, international economics and the theory of individual choice. In 1998, he received the Outstanding Research Paper Award as co-author for the article Exchange rate policy: past failures and future tasks from the National Academy of Science and Technology. He also received the Outstanding Publication Award in 1997 from the same organization as editor and co-author of the book Poverty, Growth and Fiscal Crisis. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of the Philippines and was awarded a post-graduate fellowship at Universitt Konstanz in Germany.

Jose Encarnacion Jr. Birth Date: Nobyembre 17, 1928 Birth Place: Maynila Contribution: ang nagbigay ng kontribusyon ukol sa sa teorya ng Ekonomiya ng Pilipinas. Sa kanyang pagsulat ng mga artikulo ukol sa Ekonomiya ng Pilipinas, nahirang siya sa isa sa "Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM)" ng Junior Chamber of the Philippines at "Distinguished Scholar of theof the Philippines" noong 1968. Siya ay pinarangalan bilang "Pambansang Siyentipiko sa larangan ng Ekonomiya" noong 1987. Nakapagtapos ng in Philosophy sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas, masters degree at doctorate degree in Economics noong taong 1954 at 1960. Kinilala siya bilang ekonomista, guro at dekano ng of Economics sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas. Kauna-unahang Pilipino na nakapagpalathala ng artikulo sa International Economic review, vol. 10, no. 2 na may titulong "On Independence Postulates Concerning Choice.", at sa Econometrica, vol. 32, no. 1 & 2, na may titulong "A note on lexicographical Preferences." Ang iba pa niyang mga sulatin ay lumabas din sa iba't ibang journal sa Inglatera at Estados Unidos.

DOMINGO F. PANGANIBAN- The Operations Man ,Ding to his friends, was born in Tanauan, Batangas on August 9, 1939. Contribution: Although arm-chair economists challenge this, rice self sufficiency remains the Holy Grail of Philippine agriculture. The country always had been importing rice and in the last few years, had been the worlds largest importer of the staple. However, for one brief shining moment in the 70s we did succeed in producing enough for our own people because of the MASAGANA 99 rice program. The man of the hour was the operations man of M-99- Domingo F. Panganiban. Winfred M. Villamil Birth Date: Birth Place: Contribution: He has consulted for various multilateral organizations such as the International Labor Organization, the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and the United Nations International Childrens Fund. His research interests include human resource economics, regionalism, and international trade policy. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of the Philippines. Pilar Juliana "Pia" Cayetano Birth Date: March 22, 1966 Birth Place: Michigan,US Contribution: From 1992 until 1995, she was an associate lawyer of the Castillo, Laman Tan, and Pantaleon Law Offices who specializes in corporate law and intellectual property laws. From 1996 to 1999 she was an officer for the legal and corporate affairs of the Belle Corporation and its affiliates including the gaming

Pura Villanueva Kalaw Birth Date: Agosto 27, 1886 Birth Place: Contribution: ay kilala para sa kanyang mga aktibong panlipunan, pang-ekonomiya at serbisyo sa kanyang bansa at mga tao. Ang pagkakaroon ng isang simbuyo ng damdamin para sa pagsulat, hinihimok nya ang mga batang manunulat upang ituloy ang kanilang mga pangarap. Ang isang negosyante at ekonomista sa kanyang sariling paninindigan, Villanueva Kalaw Social Works ay tumatak sa isip at puso ng kanyang mga kababayang

conglomerate BW Resources. In 2000, she was a general counsel of the Philweb Corporation. In 2001 she was appointed as chairman of the Maxi Group of Companies, a retailer and distributor of educational toys, infant apparel and accessories.

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