Southeast Asia: Philippines
Scholarly resources for the region of Southeast Asia
Economics & Finance--Philippines specific links
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Asian Development Bank--PhiippinesADB country operation page.
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The World Bank--PhilippinesPhilippines country page
Economics and Finance Multiregional Resources
Politics/Public Policy (Philippines)
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Amnesty International PhilippinesAI Philippines site
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Asian Human Rights Commission--PhilippinesAHRC Philippines page
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Council on Foreign Relations--AsiaAn independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher.
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Human Rights Watch--PhilippinesPhilippines country page
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National Bureau of Asian Research--Southeast AsiaPhilippines region links
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Philippine Elections Web ArchiveDocuments the Philippine general elections of 2010 and 2019
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ReliefWeb-PhilippinesDisaster and crisis updates and analysis.
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United Nations Development Programme in PhilippinesUNDP is the UN's global development network. Use search box and links to locate documents
Politics and Public Policy Multi Regional Resources
For multi regional politics and public policy resources see the Cross Regional Politics and Public Policy listings
History--Philippines
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Asian Economic History Series One: The Opium Trade and the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 1945-48Butler microforms, 4 reels. Foreign Office Files relating to the Opium Trade and the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs. The material is truly international with memoranda, papers and correspondence reflecting activity in Burma, Syria, the Lebanon, Cyprus, the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, India and Ceylon, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, the Philippines, North Borneo and Sarawak. See online guide.
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Evangelism in Philippines : correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1898-1910. This link opens in a new window"The American Presbyterian Church was committed at its inception to the belief that it is a missionary church and that every member is a missionary. The establishment in 1837 of the Presbyterian Church's Board of Foreign Missions signaled the beginning of a worldwide missionary operation destined to embrace some fifteen countries in four different continents. The records offered here provide invaluable information on social conditions in the Philippines and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century. Documenting the church's educational, evangelical, and medical work, these are records mainly of incoming correspondence from the mission field and outgoing correspondence from the Board headquarters"--Publisher's description
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Mangyan bamboo collection from Mindoro, Philippines, circa 1900 to 1939A collection of 71 bamboo slats and 6 cylinders from the island of Mindoro in the Philippines. These items are etched with either verses or prose in the Mangyan script—an Indic-derived writing system that pre-dates the arrival of the Spaniards in the Philippines and persists to the present.
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U.S. Relations and Policies in Southeast Asia, 1944-1958: Records of the Office of Southeast Asian AffairsThis collection identifies the key issues, individuals, and events in the history of U.S.-Southeast Asia relations between 1944 and 1958, and places them in the context of the complex and dynamic regional strategic, political, and economic processes that have fashioned the American role in Southeast Asia.
Podcasts Philippines
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Puma PodcastThe "first-mover in podcasting in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. We specialize in audio storytelling founded on core values of good, independent journalism, and in the service of our company’s mission: to share the joy, value, and power there is in listening."
Religions Multiregional Resources
Multiregional Asia religion resources are available here.