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Will the bad luck of the Philippines ever turn?

With its devastating cyclones, rising sea levels and decades of corrupt government, it seems doomed to remain one of the world’s poorest nations

Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos in 1981, whose rule became a byword for authoritarianism and corruption. [Getty Images]
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  • The Making of the Modern Philippines

    Philip Bowring

    Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 272, £20

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