Coordinator, Action for Economic Reforms
3rd Floor, 40 Matulungin St.,
Central, Quezon City 1100, Philippines
Tel/Fax: 63 2 4265626[o]
Tel: 63 2 921 2059 [h]
E-mail: filomenoiii@yahoo.com
aer@aer.ph
A lecturer in the National College of Public Administration and Governance of the University of the Philippines in courses on governance and the economy and fiscal policy, Men is also the Coordinator of Action for Economic Reforms (AER), a member of the board of various foundations and networks in the Philippines and is contributor to the ‘Yellow Pad Column’ of the publication Businessworld.
Men works around themes of regional economic integration and issues on trade, investments, exchange rate, regional currency and labour mobility. He was active in the ARENA Programme on Capital Flows and through the AER and in collaboration with ARENA, he organized the National Seminar Workshop on Capital Flows in the Philippines in the year 2002. Men has been an active member of the ARENA Network since the inception of the Asian Solidarity Against Debt and Recolonisation (ASADR) established in 1993 that was later on known to be the Asian Network on Debt & Development in 1995.
He is currently editing a volume for AER and ARENA on Capital Flows and a public policy journal of the University of the Philippines on NGO issues. He has come out with numerous written works and his latest published work as issue editor is Public Policy of December 2002 and The State and the Market: Essays on a Socially Oriented Philippine Economy, 1998.