TY - BOOK AU - Ramos, Fidel V., TI - The continuity of freedom : : a democratic and reformist society is our unique competitive advantage / SN - 9718927050 AV - PN 6129 .R17 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - [Manila] PB - Friends of Steady Eddie KW - RAMOS, FIDEL V. -- 1928- KW - SPEECHES, ADDRESSES, ETC KW - PHILIPPINES -- POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT -- 1986- N1 - Includes index; I. A hundred years of nationhood -- II. A season for solidarity -- III. We will weather this storm together -- IV. Human development, culture and the media -- V. Interdependence among nation -- VI. Our social reform agenda N2 - Today our free and open society is a competitive advantage that foreign investors and our neighbors acknowledge. Freedom stimulates creativity in the individual and in the whole of national society, and wealth creation is merely a byproduct of that creativity of freedom ER -