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Arsenio M. Balisacan is a Filipino economist and academic who serves as the Philippine Socioeconomic Planning Secretary under the administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III. In that capacity, he has been Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) since May 10, 2012. Concurrently, he serves as Chairman of the Boards of the (Philippine Statistics Authority ), Philippine Institute for Development Studies, (Philippine Center for Economic Development ), and (Public-Private Partnership Center ). Prior to his Cabinet appointment, he was Professor and Dean of School of Economics of the University of the Philippines Diliman and concurrently Executive Director of the (Philippine Center for Economic Development ). A holder of PhD in Economics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa,〔http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2012/06/15/uh-alumnus-named-top-economist-in-the-philippines/〕 he has been an Academician of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) since 2008〔 and an Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University since 2011.〔 == Early years == Balisacan was born in Solsona, Ilocos Norte, a remote town located at the foot of the Sierra Madre mountain range. Balisacan’s father was initially a farm tenant tilling fields in a resource-poor, isolated village of the town. When their nun relative convinced his father to take on a janitorial job in Laoag City, they had to leave their farm life behind. In the city, Balisacan, his five other siblings and their parents stayed in a land where they were later evicted. Balisacan said he was in high school when their family was forced out of the property and had to go back to their tiny village at the easternmost part of Ilocos Norte. “It was tough. It was only lately that I realized that we were an informal settler. We were squatting in somebody’s land. () I was already in high school, we were evicted from that place, and we had to return to that old town of ours,” Balisacan recalled. From his primary-school days all the way to his postgraduate studies, Balisacan had to rely on scholarships, grants, and part-time employment as his family was poor. He spent most of his formative years of basic education under the tutelage of Divine Word College of Laoag and completed the last two years of secondary education in Ablan Memorial Academy of Solsona where he graduated as the valedictorian. Balisacan credits his mother’s aunt, Isidra Rivera, who was mayor of the town of Solsona, as his early inspiration in life. “She devoted selflessly her life to this town,” he says. “She had actually very little physical possessions in life, especially when viewed in today’s cadre of local politicians. What she had in abundance was deep respect and love by her people, unblemished credibility and genuine concern for the poor.” When things got worse, Balisacan’s eldest brother graduated from Divine Word College. Armed with an Accounting degree, Balisacan’s eldest brother was offered a job in Cebu City by Atlas Mining. The job allowed his brother to bring their family to Cebu to live. Balisacan, who was an Agriculture scholar at the Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU), had to stay behind in Batac, Ilocos Norte. Read more of his early years in these featured articles, "Arsenio M. Balisacan: Resolute at 25" by Cai Ordinario, Business Mirror Anniversary Issue and "Top Philippine Economist to Visit Hawaii" by Belinda Aquino, Hawaii Filipino Chronicle 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arsenio Balisacan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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