Francisco J. Lara Jr.

Filipino sociologist, former country manager of International Alert Philippines, who has written on the shadow economies and the clans of Muslim Mindanao.

2 books on the shelf

2013Free to read
Out of the Shadows
eds. Francisco J. Lara Jr. and Steven Schoofs
International Alert
The shadow economies of Mindanao, from guns and drugs to the informal credit and trade that ordinary people live by, and how they feed and are fed by the conflict. Free to read.
2014In print
Insurgents, Clans, and States
Francisco J. Lara Jr.
Ateneo de Manila University Press
Why the conflict keeps returning: the clans, the rebel fronts and the state as rival sources of authority in Muslim Mindanao, and the shadow economy that sustains all three.

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