Shifting from focus on economic development in the Philippines, Dr. Aser B. Javier, visiting scholar of Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University and Professor of University of the Philippines Los Banos, provided us a comprehensive lecture about the Philippines. The lecture started from community development perspective and extended to national governance, local goverments, education, local economy, culture and so forth. It told us diverse perspectives of the Philippines. Meanwhile, it enhanced our understanding of a country from social structure to development paradigms. Participants also actively raised many questions by contrasting their experiences and cases of their home countries with the cases in the Philippines. Many hints have been pointed out for our participants to further consider for their research design and reserach plan making.
