A Study of the Post-EDSA NEDA as a Central Planning Agency

Abstract

This study dealt mainly with the effectiveness of post-EDSA NEDA as a central planning agency. The hypothesis of the study was founded on the historical materialist framework, particularly on Marx’s postulates on the role of the state. NEDA has been ineffective in planning and operating for the attainment of a genuine social transformation alongside with economic growth. Like any other state institutions, it is just a reflection of the kind of government the country has...an apparatus for the furtherance of the status quo.