In the late 1980s, the 1990s, and the early 2000s, HIV/AIDS loomed large in the Filipino public’s consciousness. News of this dread disease, its causes, cures, and consequences filled all forms of media, even the nascent internet. Public fora, interviews with health authorities and activists, even movies featuring the stories of people living with (and dying of) HIV/AIDS, brought the largely sexually transmitted disease to the forefront of Filipinos’ concerns. Or so it seemed. Today, HIV/AIDS
Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world’s poor people earn their living in agriculture, so if we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economics of being poor.” Those are the first sentences of “The economics of being poor,” the 1979 Nobel Prize Lecture of Theodore W. Schultz (1902-1998), awardee for economics. Schultz was my teacher at the University of Chicago, where I had been sent by the University of Philippines (UP)
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