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• Reflections on my years with UNESCO
  in Social Alternatives Journal, Brisbane, 2008 5pp.
• The journal devoted a special issue to UNESCO and its work through the years. I was asked to recount my work experience and its impact during my ten years with the organization. I was thus forced to systematically crystallize and analyze my memories of those years, as well as its successes and challenges. It therefore became an intensely personal account.
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  AED - Country Profile Paper: Philippines in 2003
  Paper commissioned by the Agency for the Education Development Washington, 2003.
• In an anticipation of the visit of President Bush to the Philippines, USAID was commissioned to prepare background papers on the social sectors of the Philippine economy. USAID in turn subcontracted the Agency for the Education Development, for whom I did this paper.
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  The State of Rural Education
  published by the International Center for Rural Development (INRULED), Baoding, China, 2005
• In preparation for their annual major symposium, INRULED commissioned me to prepare a major research and policy paper on rural education worldwide. The paper was used not only for the symposium, but also translated into Chinese and widely distributed throughout China, which has by far the largest rural population in the world.
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  Education for All and Skills Development
  intended keynote presentation for OECD Conference on Technical and Vocational Education, Manchester, England, 2003.
• Knowing ahead of time that I would be unable to accept their invitation to keynote their major conference on employment and employment in Manchester, the UNEVOC Director asked me instead to prepare the main background document for the conference, expanding its scope beyond technical skills for employment to empowerment through a range of skills development.
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  Social Development: Its Aspects, Means, and Implications
  for Conference of Trade Unionists, ESCAP, Baangkok, 1997. 7 pp
• ESCAP asked me to address the Trade sector and establish the linkage between their work, economic progress, and human resource development.
• Filling a Gap in the Philippine Educational System
  on the need for distance learning institutions, in Manila Bulletin, 1981
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  Advanced Studies in Southeast Asia-Country Report: Philippines
  for RIHED (Regional Institute for Higher Education and Development), Singapore, 1976.
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  Philippine American Relations in the Year 2000: Looking Ahead
  sponsored by USIS, US embassy, Tagaytay, 1988
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  The Other War
  a solicited article published in Cairo through the Al-Jazeera Network, 1993.
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