An assessment of a President’s performance after only a year in office can provide a good sense of his governance direction and the soundness of his initial steps. MBOpinions READ:
Initially, his most important step is in his choice of his cabinet, the people who will assist him in governance – in formulating, finetuning and implementing policies. The next important step is the setting of priorities and standards, given the resources he can command and the time for action allowed him.
By choosing to handle Agriculture, he is apparently well aware of our food security problem, given our expanding population and our agricultural production that has perrenially lagged behind. Joined together , these are mammoth problems that a President, as the bossman, can best and effectively undertake with capable underlying support.
The Philippines ranks 77th out of 132 countries in the 2022 Global Knowledge Index that assesses a nation's expertise in terms of education, innovation, knowledge, economy, technology, and research and development. Education is a means to secure for us the tools we need - to innovate, keep up with developing technology, research on our own, and develop our human and natural resources and our economy. Unless we so equip ourselves, we would be left behind, relegated to the dung heap of history.
Rather than be deluded by glowing initial assessments, our leaders should focus on the sustainability of their decisions and the actions they are taking. Sustainability has not been our strong point and in fact has been our problem in recent presidential history. Presidents Macapagal-Arroyo and Fidel Ramos initially performed well in governance and in their handling the economy.
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