“Virtuous Impatience highlights the urgent need in awakening our national policymakers to the importance of bold and rewarding long-term reforms to accelerate economic development.”
—Gerardo P. Sicat, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Economics, UP, and First Minister of Economic Planning, NEDA

“More so now, these essays remain a timely and valuable reminder of how things have come to be and how things can be.”
—Tessie Sy-Coson, Vice Chair, SM Investments Corporation

“Former NEDA Secretary Ernesto Pernia's new book Virtuous Impatience is an eye-opener on the current state of our country … a must-read for policymakers in the government, administrators, political science students, future economists, and social science educators.”
—Sherwin T. Gatchalian, Senator of the Philippines

Author: Ernesto M. Pernia
ISBN/ISSN: 978971542940-5
Category: Literary; Essays; Economic Development; Poverty
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 208pp
Size: 6x9
Type: PB/SP