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'The Duterte administration really brought down the Philippines' scores and rankings on Rule of Law as well as on corruption.' Analysis
– in some international large-scale assessments, the lowest performance among all countries assessed.– the highest infant mortality, the highest child mortality, the second-to-the lowest life expectancy., i.e., they are a major reason why the previous seven came to be in the first place.
They have to do with good governance, which “is considered key to achieving sustainable development and human well-being. After all, sustainable development requires that those in power have respect for human rights and work towards eradicating poverty, addressing hunger, securing good health care and high quality education for their citizens, guaranteeing gender equality, reducing inequality, and so on.”The eighth inconvenient truth concerns the rule of law in the Philippines.
A very important distinction is made between “rule of law” and “rule by law”. “Rule by law” refers to the executive’s use of law and bureaucracy as an instrument of power, while “Rule of Law” is when the executive itself is constrained by the same laws that apply to everyone else.The World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index 2022 is the basis of Inconvenient Truth #8: The Philippines has the lowest score, and the lowest rank, among the ASEAN-5 as far as the Rule of Law is concerned.
What is so galling is that eight years ago, in 2015, the Philippines had a score higher than everyone else, except Malaysia . As you can see, Reader, the Duterte administration really brought down the Philippines’ Rule of Law score and ranking – from 0.53 to 0.47, and from 51 out of 102 to 97th out of 140. One would have hoped that under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
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