Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist. "The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver
Dr. Raquiza to discuss importance of manufacturing in industrial policy, nation-building
Dr. Raquiza to discuss importance of manufacturing in industrial policy, nation-building
Details
Professor Antoinette Raquiza of the UP Asian Center will be speaking at a webinar on “Industrial Policy and Nation-Building” which will be held on 22 March 2022, 9 am to 12 pm via Zoom, Philippine Standard Time. The webinar is free and open to the public.
Manufacturing Matters
In her talk, “Manufacturing Matters,” Dr. Raquiza will discuss how the country's industrial policy in relation to global trends such as the momentum for "reshoring" in developed countries and the Philippines' place in the global consumer market.
Professor Raquiza’s lecture is one of several presentations in the webinar, which “aims to flesh out dimensions of the work that range from policy requirements, technological innovations, to stakeholder collaboration and mobilization. [It] will also identify concrete areas of collaboration and draw up policy recommendations as inputs to an Industrial Policy Governance Agenda.”
Other webinar presentations will cover the role of the science and technology community in industrial development, the university as a driver of innovation, the impact of micro, small, and medium enterprises on industrialization, and the future of manufacturing.
Task Force Nation-Building, UP Diliman
The webinar is organized by Task Force Nation-Building under the Office of the Chancellor, University of the Philippines Diliman, which is chaired by Dr. Antoinette Raquiza. View her full profile.
The convenor of the Political Economy Program of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies, she is the author of State Structure, Policy Formation and Economic Development in Southeast Asia: The Political Economy of Thailand and the Philippines (Routledge 2012) and the book chapter, "Philippine Services Sector: Domestic Policy and Global Markets," which appeared in Southeast Asia Beyond Crises and Traps: Economic Growth and Upgrading (Palgrave Macmillan 2017).
Development Studies @ UP Asian Center
She teaches political economy, late development, and Southeast Asian Studies courses at the UP Asian Center, which offers development studies as an area of specialization under the MA Philippine Studies Program. This semester, Professor Raquiza is teaching Nationalism and National Development (Asian Studies[AS] 203).
The UP Asian Center offers M.A. degrees in Asian Studies with four fields of specialization: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. The Center also has an M.A. program in Philippine Studies that allows students to major in Philippine society and culture, Philippine foreign relations, or Philippine development studies. The Center offers a Ph.D. program in Philippine Studies in conjunction with the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy. For an overview of these graduate programs, click here. The Asian Center also publishes Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia, the latest issue of which can be downloaded at the journal's website. For other news and upcoming events at the Asian Center, click here.
