Third part of a series

A nuclear power plant and a major hydroelectric dam could have powered Philippine industrialization in the 1980s, but opposition fanned by CPP's agit-prop scuttled plans to turn the country into a "tiger economy." Four decades to the present, high power and utility rates continue to limit foreign investment, and energy security remains a serious problem for the country.

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