Reviews 
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Beyond the labyrinth of budget legislation
By CHIT ESTELLA IF numbers represented money, wouldn’t more people be interested in them? The innocuously titled book, “Your Guidebook to Effective and Transparent National Budget Legislation: Philippine Setting,” shows how true this can be. The product of 15 years of observation and research, the book is the work of former accountants and managers who »Read More
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Corruptionary: The lingo of corruption
By CHIT ESTELLA MANY Filipinos would find it hard to find a Tagalog word for “honest.” Matapat, the oft-cited word, comes closer to the English word “faithful.” Malinis is clean, which could refer to many other things. The debate goes on. They would find it easy, however, to come up with local equivalents for the »Read More
