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6 unusual facts about University of the Philippines School of Economics


Arsenio Balisacan

In 1995, he received academic appointment as full professor at the University of the Philippines School of Economics.

Dante Canlas

Currently a professor at the University of the Philippines School of Economics, he served as Socio-Economic Planning Secretary and concurrently Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority from 2001 to 2002 under then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Gerardo Sicat

At the then newly founded (1965) University of the Philippines School of Economics, he blended teaching and administrative duties with research.

Awarded a generous Rockefeller Foundation scholarship in support of the faculty development program of the University of the Philippines School of Economics in 1959, he finished his doctorate in economics studies in record time at the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963.

National Economic and Development Authority

The present Director-General is Dr. Arsenio Balisacan of the University of the Philippines School of Economics.

Raul V. Fabella

His entire academic career has been spent with the faculty of the University of the Philippines School of Economics (UPSE), which he served as dean from 1998 to 2007.



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