Liberal-reformist good-governance programme branded 'Daang Matuwid' (Straight Path): corruption reduction as the animating theory of growth, coupled with inflation-targeting macro stability, PPP-led infrastructure delivery, and targeted social-protection expansion. Signature fiscal moves: the Sin Tax Reform Act (RA 10351, Dec 2012) raising and simplifying tobacco and alcohol excises with proceeds earmarked for UHC/PhilHealth indigent coverage; the Enhanced Basic Education (K-to-12) Act (RA 10533, May 2013) adding Grades 11-12 plus kindergarten; and sustained expansion of the 4Ps Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program conditional cash transfer (from ~1m to ~4.4m household beneficiaries). Institutional agenda: impeachment of Chief Justice Corona (May 2012) on SALN grounds, DAP/PDAF disallowance episodes, Commission on Audit activism. Foreign and security policy re-anchored on the US alliance (EDCA, Apr 2014) and an international arbitration challenge to China's nine-dash line (filed Jan 2013, won at the PCA under successor in July 2016). Macro record: average 6.2% GDP growth 2010-2015, first sovereign investment-grade ratings 2013, current-account surpluses, the 'rising tiger' period.
Policy-content fingerprint — how the framework codes this movement on its axes
Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
increased · strong
larger transfer footprint
4Ps CCT caseload quadrupled to 4.4m households; Social Pension for indigent seniors launched under RA 9994.
Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
mixed · weak
Corona impeachment removed an executive-aligned CJ via constitutional process; DAP and PDAF SC rulings demonstrated active judicial constraint on the executive.
Policies enacted
· ph_sin_tax_reform_2012
· ph_k12_basic_education_2013
· ph_pantawid_4ps_expansion_2010_2016
· ph_ppp_infrastructure_program_2010_2016
· ph_edca_2014
What the data says — linked outcome hypotheses
The movement's outcome claims are tied to these hypotheses. Verdicts update as models run.
Relied more on PPPs and ODA than on a directed industrial policy; closer to a Washington-consensus-plus model than to the East Asian activist state.
References
RA 10351 (Sin Tax Reform Act), 20 December 2012
RA 10533 (Enhanced Basic Education Act, K-to-12), 15 May 2013
RA 10667 (Philippine Competition Act), 21 July 2015
RA 10931 (Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education — free tuition in SUCs, enacted under successor but Aquino-era groundwork)
COMELEC, 2010 National Elections Official Canvass
Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), 28 April 2014
Notes
Electoral mandate: 15.2 million votes (42.1% plurality) in the 2010 election against Estrada 26.3%, Villar 15.4%, Teodoro 11.3%. 15th and 16th Congresses were Liberal-led coalitions with working majorities — ~110 LP House seats plus 150+ allied, and 4-6 LP senators within a working Senate majority of ~15-17. Pulse Asia net satisfaction ran +30 to +60 through most of the term. Succession handover to Duterte (June 2016) came after Mar Roxas, Aquino's anointed successor, placed second with 23.5%.