 Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

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Background

Her Impact

Accomplishments

Receiving many awards and honorable mentions

Decreased inflation rates from 9.3% to 3.2%

(increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time)

Born: April 5, 1947

San Juan, Philippines

(68 years old)

Offered Agriculture field over 1 million new jobs

(assisting in resource allocation and economic development)

Overall very positive, she has helped so many

(unemployed, homeless, uneducated, country as a whole)

Recognized as being a powerful women

Time Magazine

Council of Women World Leaders

Forbes Magazine

Women of the Year

One of Asia's Most Powerful Women

After served as

a Senator

1992-1998

Interesting Facts

4.5% economic growth

Schooled with Bill Clinton, who also served as the USA president

(around the same time Gloria served as President in the Philippines)

12th Vice President of the Philippines 1998-2001

Strengthened the Philippines currency (Peso)

against the Dollar

P50.99 per $ --> P47.64 per $

200 Peso

(higher than past 3 presidents -4%)

Bibliography

Arroyo to Aquino: It's the economy, student! (n.d.). Retrieved February 01, 2016, from http://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/829-arroyo-to-aquino-it-s-the-economy,-student

Arroyo trumpets accomplishments in past 9 years. (n.d.). Retrieved February 17, 2016, from http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/185237/money/arroyo-trumpets-accomplishments-in-past-9-years

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Inflation. (n.d.). Retrieved February 29, 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation

"Macapagal-Arroyo, Gloria." Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2005, & "Macapagal-Arroyo, Gloria." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2015. (2005). Macapagal-Arroyo, Gloria. Retrieved February 17, 2016, from http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Gloria_Macapagal-Arroyo.aspx

She was re-arrested in Oct 2012 for misusing $8.8 million lottery funds

Daughter of the former President Diasdado Macapagal

(2nd Female V.P.)

(for Joseph Estrada)

Overall population of poor people increased

Started as an Economics Professor at a University

Joseph Estrada was accused of corruption, forcing him out of office

Increased their national achievement rate from

44% --> 55%

(building new classrooms, investing into education)

Bill Clinton believed that Gloria put the Philippines back into a better shape through all of her "tough decisions"

Nov 18, 2011

She was arrested for her electoral fraud, later released in July

When she was

re-arrested, she was in the hospital

Built more

post-harvest facilities

(including farm to market roads)

double the amount of previous admins. combined

Entered the Government in 1987 as the secretary's assistant

Government housing projects, benefiting +300,000 families

(including 90,000 from the railroads)

14th President of the Philippines, 2001-2010

Estrada was

gone, they

needed a

president

Arroyo was

Vice, she was sworn into Presidency

(1st Female Pr.)