MBC Looks Back
 In October 2005, the Makati Business Club—publisher of Philippine Business—began its 25th year of operations. Since 1981, the MBC has functioned as a forum for constructive ideas, providing a platform for public policy discussions by the men and women who helped shape the course of recent Philippine history. The list includes all Philippine presidents since Ferdinand Marcos, Cabinet officials, Bangko Sentral governors, leaders of Congress and the military, members of the diplomatic corps, and Church officials including the late Jaime Cardinal Sin.
MBC has also hosted an impressive list of distinguished foreign personalities: U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle, former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Chilean President Eduardo Frei, International Monetary Fund managing director Michel Camdessus, World Bank presidents Barber Conable and James Wolfensohn, American International Group chairman Maurice Greenberg, and economist Gustav Ranis, among others.
In celebration of MBC’s 25th year, Philippine Business is featuring some of the policy speeches delivered before the MBC, many of which took place at critical points in our history. In so doing, we hope to highlight the nuggets of wisdom and counsel, and relive the visions and aspirations, that these speeches conveyed. Today’s readers may find enlightenment and draw inspiration from a reading of these policy pronouncements from the past.
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