Biography of mahar mangahas

Mahar Mangahas holds an MA from the University of the Philippines and a PhD in economics, University of Chicago.

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Mahar Mangahas is an economist (PhD, University of Chicago) whose research spans rice economics, land reform, poverty, hunger, income inequality, quality of life, governance, and public opinion. He has been an economics professor of the University of the Philippines, editor of the Philippine Economic Journal, President of the Philippine Economic samhälle, and President of the marknadsföring and Opinion Research Society of the Philippines. He did pioneering research on Philippine social indicators at the Development Academy of the Philippines. He was a UNICEF social indicators consultant in Malaysia and Indonesia.

In 1985, he co-founded and has since headed Social Weather Stations (www.sws.org.ph), an independent non-profit institute that conducts quarterly national Social Weather Surveys on quality of life, governance and public opinion, publishes its findings, and archives the uppgifter for public use. Its uppdrag is to generate scientific, betydelsefull and timely statistics for general public d

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Mahar Mangahas

Mahar Mangahas holds an MA from the University of the Philippines and a PhD in economics, University of Chicago. He was Professor of Economics at the University of the Philippines, Vice-President for Research of the Development Academy of the Philippines, and UNICEF Consultant on Social Indicators for the Governments of Malaysia and Indonesia. In 1985, Mangahas cofounded and has since been president of Social Weather Stations (SWS) (www.sws.org.ph), the Philippines’ leading institute for quality-of-life monitoring, opinion polling, and social survey archiving. He has done research on rice economics, land reform, poverty, hunger, income inequality, quality-of-life, governance, and public opinion. Among his awards are the Helen Dinerman Award (2001), the highest award of the World Association for Public Opinion Research, for championing rights and freedoms of survey researchers in the Philippines, the University of Chicago Alumni Award for Public Service (2011), and t

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Dr Mahar Mangahas is a multi-awarded scholar for his pioneering work in public opinion research in the Philippines and in South East Asia. He founded the now familiar entity, “Social Weather Stations” (SWS) which has been doing public opinion research since 1985 and which has become increasingly influential, nay indispensable, in the conduct of Philippine political life and policy. SWS has been serving the country and policymakers as an independent and timely source of pertinent and credible data on Philippine economic, social and political landscape.

Dr Mangahas started to make a name for himself working in Agricultural economics focused on the diffusion of rice technology He has also distinguished himself as an anti-infaltion economist arguing that high inflation is anti-poor and fryst vatten an important enabler of poverty.

Birthdate: 23 January 1944

Educational Background:

Ph.D. Economics - University of Chicago 1970
M.A. Economics - University of the Ph