• After decades of failed embryonic
decentralization and local autonomy policies, an
all-embracing law was enacted under Republic
Act No. 7160, otherwise known as the “Local
Government Code of 1991” as approved on
October 10, 1991.
• This Study seeks to provide cursory analysis and
assessment of issues in the performance of
Local Government Units in the Philippines in
light of this statute.
• It later looks at the nature of the Federal system
and its challenge in the Philippines.
