TY - BOOK AU - Santiago, Miriam Defensor TI - Cutting edge: The Politics of reform in the Philippines SN - 9714900034 AV - JQ 1411 .S23 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - Metro Manila, Philippines PB - Woman Today Publications KW - POLITICS N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 1. The Culture of corruption -- 2. The Politics of cannibalism -- 3. The Non-triumph of evil -- 4. The Will to win -- 5. A sense of shared destiny N2 - The real problem of the Philippines as a developing state is not poverty but graft and corruption. The country is not corrupt because it is poor; on the contrary, the country is poor because it is corrupt ER -