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View the full archive of the liberal times manila Property Rights in the Philippines Drawing from John Nye's talk on elites and reform, Noel Maurer, associate professor of Harvard Business School, talks about a time in our history when dominant interests found it beneficial to allow reforms in the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will Elites Permit Reform? Professor John Nye of George Mason University discusses the importance of New Institutional Economics to developing countries. He talks about how reforms are best understood from the default position of poverty. In fact it is the prosperity of some nations that is a rare and recent event. The real issue is how countries can rise out of destitution, and why it is particularly difficult to do so. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lessons from the Obama Campaign Joe Hansen, U.S. Democratic Party political consultant, shares anecdotes form the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign. He attributes its success to its "standing the traditional campaign structure on its head." He talks about how it was run on the basis of respect, inclusion and empowerment. Hansen mentions how there were no preconditions; anybody who wanted to work in the campaign was welcomed. He also contrasted Obama's campaign style with that of Clinton's and McCain's and discussed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Safeguarding the Charter Liberal Party Director General Jose Luis Martin Gascon questions the motives behind the administration’s push for constitutional change. As a 1987 constitutional commissioner, he agrees that perhaps it is time to revisit it as it is the longest serving charter without any amendments. However, he cautions that now is not an appropriate time as present initiatives look to be designed chiefly to benefit those currently in power. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Liberal Party In the second episode of The Liberal Times Manila Podcast, Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Ronald Meinardus review the various activities held on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Liberal Party of the Philippines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International and regional activities of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and iBlog2: The 2nd Philippine Blogging Summit A closer look at the international and regional activities of the liberal Foundation and a short preview of the 2nd Philippine Blogging Summit on April 18, 2006 of which The Liberal Times Manila Podcast is a co-sponsor Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The First in a Three-Part Special Episode Series Featuring Speeches from the Second Philippine Blogging Summit: A Focus on Political Blogging and the Politics of Blogging The Liberal Times Manila podcast highlights speeches and interviews with Internet personalities of the 2nd Philippine Blogging Summit on 18 April 2006 at the UP College of Law, Quezon City in a series of three special episodes. Following the summit’s format of dividing topics into tracks, The Liberal Times Manila podcast will also divide the special episodes into three themes: political blogging and the politics of blogging, podcasts and problogging. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Second Part in a Three Part Special Episode Featuring Speeches and Interviews from the Second Philippine Blogging Summit with a Focus on Podcasting in the Philippines and Beyond The Liberal Times Manila podcast co-host Ronald Meinardus shares his views on podcasting (and blogging) in civic education. Manuel Viloria talks about podcasting trends in the Philippines. Finally Brian Ligsay shares his experiences on how to set up a podcast and also how to make money with it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Third in a Three-Part Special Episode Series Featuring Speeches from the 2nd Philippine Blogging Summit: A Focus on Professional Blogging The final part in the three part series of special episodes focuses on professional blogging. The Liberal Times Manila podcast discusses how blogs have changed the media landscape. It features interviews with Mike Abundo on the social aspects of Philippine blogging and how to blog for the world community, and Abe Olandres on how to earn from your blog. It also includes a personal account from Angelo Racoma on how he moved from full-time employee to full-time blogger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Migration, Population and the Globalization of Labor – Comments and Speeches from the International Conference of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD), the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and Liberal International (LI) In this episode, Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Ronald Meinardus present comments and excerpts of speeches presented at the CALD-ALDE-LI conference in the Philippines last 21-24 June 2006. What made this conference special was its partisan character: All of the more than 100 participating politicians from various parts of the world belong to liberal parties. They assembled in Manila to discuss common liberal approaches to important global issues their societies in Asia and Europe are confronted wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Liberal Foundation and Human Rights Advocacy: A look at the Ateneo Human Rights Center's Internship Program and the Impact on the Lives of Law Students Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Ronald Meinardus talk about human rights advocacy as a vital cause to the liberal Foundation. They discuss the Foundation’s support for the Ateneo Human Rights Center's (AHRC) human rights field work program, and the AHRC and the Foundation’s joint launch of the book Remembering Still: Interns’ Reflections on Alternative Lawyering in the Philippines. This book is a compilation of essays on lessons learned from law students’ immersions in the fringe sectors ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good-bye and Hello: Tribute to Outgoing Resident Representative Dr. Ronald Meinardus and Welcome to His Successor, Mr. Siegfried Herzog Alexandra Cuyegkeng welcomes her new co-host, new Resident Representative Siegfried Herzog. Together they pay tribute to Dr. Ronald Meinardus and talk about his contributions to the Foundation’s Philippine project. They discuss his last two programs in the Philippines and in the region: the first Liberal Leadership Training seminar on local government and the fourth Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats communication workshop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turning the Page: A Review of the Foundation’s Publications and Projects, as We Enter the New Year In this episode, Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Siegfried Herzog review the Foundation's projects in the latter part of the year: the second Liberal Leadership Training seminar, the book launch of Notes from the Academy, a compilation of International Academy for Leadership (IAF) reports, the Kapihan (coffee forum) on the Human Rights Situation, and the book launch of Beyond Borders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Liberal Foundation and its Regional Partners Alexandra Cuyegkeng and Siegfried Herzog take a closer look at two of the Foundation's regional partners: the Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism (Working Group) and the Young Liberals and Democrats of Asia (YLDA). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Measuring Economic Freedom Excerpts from the speech of Senator Manual "MAR" Roxas II, Liberal Party president, at the September launch of the Philippine edition of the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW): 2008 Report. He explains that economic freedom is based on property rights. When these are protected by law, Filipinos are free to produce and trade goods. Unfortunately, the country's ungainly laws and inefficient judicial system restrain it from moving forward. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Competitiveness: Lessons from Germany Siegfried Herzog analyzes Germany’s ingredients for competitiveness as well as its disadvantages. He weighs the benefits of its dual system of education, the relationship between its trade unions and employers, its financing system and its efficient bureaucracy against the weaknesses of its high labor costs and greatly regulated labor market. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberal Example of Leadership: Jesse Robredo, 2000 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Government Service Naga City Mayor Jesse Robredo explains that his Ramon Magsaysay award is his people's affirmation of their continuing quest for meaningful politics and governance. He describes the city’s history of active citizen participation and their tradition of seeking out new ideas through debates and discourse. Some of their ideas such as the peace zone, i-governance and tripartite partnership for social housing have been hailed among the world's best practices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberal Example of Leadership: Jovito Salonga, 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Government Service Former Senator Jovito Salonga recalls vividly the Liberal Party's proclamation rally in Plaza Miranda on 21 August 1971. He recounts how before he was about to speak, unknown assailants hurled two grenades on stage. He remembers being rushed to the hospital more "dead than alive," and how his doctors only gave him a 5 percent chance to live. The former senator speaks of the mystery of his return to life and of his painful road to recovery. Now at 88, he looks back on his years of service a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberal Example of Leadership: Grace Padaca, 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Government Service Isabela Governor Grace Padaca talks about how her Ramon Magsaysay award reaffirms her efforts to empower people to use their democratic right to elect leaders of their own choosing. Four years after bringing down the “Dy-nasty” in Isabela, she believes that this recognition symbolizes that change is possible. Gov. Padaca discuses her continued work for change through the Kaya Natin movement. They make the rounds of schools and meet with different polling groups and civil society organizatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creative Empowerment and Liberal Education Siegfried Herzog discusses the objectives of a liberal education: acquisition of basic skills, development of a critical mindset and a passion to learn and the instruction of values and sensibilities. He then examines how open education, the growing worldwide movement to develop free educational content, fulfils these. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website