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The Philippine National Bank was established as a government-owned banking institution on July 22, 1916. Its primary mandate was to provide financial services to Philippine industry and agriculture and support the government's economic development effort. World War I, then raging in Europe, generated huge demand for the country's major exports ...
The Government Service Insurance System ( Filipino: Paseguruhan ng mga Naglilingkod sa Pamahalaan, abbreviated as GSIS) is a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) of the Philippines. Created by Commonwealth Act No. 186 and Republic Act No. 8291 (GSIS Act of 1997), GSIS is a social insurance institution that provides a defined ...
The Philippine Center is an agency of the Philippine Government in New York City and San Francisco in the United States. The New York City structure houses the Philippine Mission to the United Nations, the Philippine Consulate General, and the overseas offices of the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Tourism.
v. t. e. The 1st Congress of the Commonwealth of the Philippines ( Filipino: Unang Kongreso ng Komenwelt ng Pilipinas ), also known as the Postwar Congress, [ 1] and the Liberation Congress, [ 2] refers to the meeting of the bicameral legislature composed of the Senate and House of Representatives, from 1945 to 1946.
The Philippines has a comprehensive banking system encompassing various types of banks, from large universal banks to small rural banks and even non-banks.As of September 30, 2022, [1] there were 45 universal and commercial banks, [2] 44 savings banks, [3] 400 rural and cooperative banks, [4] 40 credit unions and 6,267 non-banks with quasi-banking functions, all licensed by the Bangko Sentral ...
Article 7, Section 16 of the Constitution of the Philippines says that the President . shall nominate and, with the consent of the Commission on Appointments, appoint the heads of the executive departments, ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, or officers of the armed forces from the rank of colonel or naval captain, and other officers whose appointments are vested in him in this ...
The region has a regional parliamentary system separate from the national presidential system. Its executive branch is led by the regional chief minister, the Council of Leaders, and the Bangsamoro Cabinet. Its legislative branch is the unicameral Bangsamoro Parliament. The region also has its own judiciary system that applies Sharia.
In January 1972, Ramos was appointed head of the Philippine Constabulary, then a major service branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, [15] which functioned as the country's national police. He served at this post at the time Ferdinand Marcos imposed Martial Law [ 5 ] on September 21, 1972.