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Library · Bangsamoro
The books
219 books about the Bangsamoro and its peoples, with where each can be bought, borrowed or read free.
16 books on economy and development · clear
2024Free to read
Beyond the NumbersWorld Bank
World Bank
An edition of the World Bank's Philippines Economic Update whose special focus is poverty in the BARMM. It looks at how poverty in the region fell and what is needed to keep it falling.
2020Free to read
The Transition to Universal Health Coverage in BARMMWorld Bank
World Bank
A long study of how health services are delivered and paid for in the BARMM as the region takes up the national Universal Health Care law. It maps gaps in facilities, staff and financing and sets out options for the new regional Ministry of Health.
2016In print
Mindanaoed. Paul D. Hutchcroft
Anvil Publishing
Scholars on the peace process as it stood after the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro: the deal, the economy, the clans, the law, and what would be needed to make the Bangsamoro work.
2015Free to read
Making Education Spending Count for the Children of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)World Bank
World Bank
A review of how public money for basic education is spent and managed in the ARMM, where learning outcomes are the lowest in the country. It recommends ways to make that spending reach schools and children.
2015Free to read
Bangsamoro Development PlanBangsamoro Development Agency
Bangsamoro Development Agency
The 6-year development plan for the Bangsamoro drawn up by the MILF through the BDA, with government and donor support, under the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro. It covers the history of the conflict, community consultations and plans for each sector, in 15 chapters.
2014In print
Insurgents, Clans, and StatesFrancisco 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.
2013Free to read
Out of the Shadowseds. 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.
2013Free to read
The Contested Corners of AsiaFermin Adriano and Thomas Parks
The Asia Foundation
The Mindanao case study of a multi-country Asia Foundation research project on aid in long-running subnational conflicts. Using field research and a perception survey by Social Weather Stations, it asks whether development aid in conflict areas of Mindanao has helped or hurt peace.
2011In print
The Sulu Arms MarketLino Miani
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
The trade in guns across the Sulu and Celebes seas, who sells, who buys and what the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia have done about it.
2005Free to read
Joint Needs Assessment for Reconstruction and Development of Conflict-Affected Areas in MindanaoWorld Bank
World Bank
The main report of a large needs assessment of conflict-affected areas of Mindanao, made jointly with the government, international agencies and local stakeholders. It sets out what reconstruction and development would need after a peace agreement with the MILF, and led to the Mindanao Trust Fund.
2005Free to read
Philippine Human Development Report 2005Human Development Network
Human Development Network
The 2005 national human development report, devoted to the costs of armed conflict in the Philippines, including the Moro conflict and the communist insurgency. It treats human security as a precondition of human development and examines prejudice against Muslims as a driver of conflict.
2004Free to read
The Moro ConflictEric U. Gutierrez and Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
East-West Center
The argument that land, not religion, is at the root of the Moro conflict: how colonial and Philippine land policy dispossessed the Moros and why the peace deals have not touched it. Free to read.
2003Free to read
Breaking the Links between Economics and Conflict in MindanaoInternational Alert
International Alert
A discussion paper on the economic roots of the Mindanao conflict and what business and donors could do about them. Free to read.
2003Out of print
Human Development for Peace and Prosperity in the Autonomous Region in Muslim MindanaoTeresa J. Ho
World Bank
A World Bank study of health, education and social services in the ARMM, the country's poorest region. It argues that better human development is needed for peace and growth in Muslim Mindanao.
1994Out of print
The Minoritization of the Indigenous Communities of Mindanao and the Sulu ArchipelagoB. R. (Rudy) Rodil
Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao
How the Moro and Lumad peoples became minorities in their own homeland: the land laws, the resettlement programmes and the migration from Luzon and the Visayas, with the figures.
1981In print
The Sulu Zone, 1768–1898James Francis Warren
NUS Press
The Sulu Sultanate at its height as a trading state: the China trade in sea produce, the slave raiding that fed it, and the peoples it drew in, from Spanish, British and Dutch archives. The book that made the Sulu Zone a field of study. Second edition 2007.