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Case Study 1: Mayor Belmonte and Quezon City

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Feliciano “Sonny” Belmonte, Jr., during his 9-year tenure as Mayor of Quezon City, Philippines, transformed the largest city in the Metro Manila National Capital Region from an economic laggard to one of the country’s wealthiest and most well managed.

The initial draft of this section was written with the assistance of John Lee Candelaria. However, the views and opinions expressed in this final report are those of the authors.

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  1. Philippine Korea Research Center, University of the Philippines, Quezon, Philippines

    Eduardo T. Gonzalez

  2. National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Philippines, Quezon, Philippines

    Zita Concepcion Calugay

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  1. Department of Global Business, College of Business, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan

    Ayano Hirose Nishihara

  2. Infrastructure and Peacebuilding Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo, Japan

    Masaei Matsunaga

  3. Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

    Ikujiro Nonaka

  4. National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan

    Kiyotaka Yokomichi

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Gonzalez, E.T., Calugay, Z.C. (2018). Case Study 1: Mayor Belmonte and Quezon City . In: Hirose Nishihara, A., Matsunaga, M., Nonaka, I., Yokomichi, K. (eds) Knowledge Creation in Public Administrations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57478-3_2

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