Lipata, Nelia L. <br/><br/>Performance of selected barangay Chairmen in Paranaque:  an evaluation/ Nelia L. Lipata.  -- Parañaque City:   Olivarez College,  1998. <br/><br/>Master Thesis <br/><br/> The Philippines is a unitary state and the local governments remain to be the political and administrative subdivisions of the National government. The Philippines local governments had undergone a long evolutionary process dating as far back as the pre-spanich era (before 1521) when the " barangays systems" ( village was the only known local unit administering the various funcions of a particular community).The Pre-Magellanic barangays in the philippines that greatly surprised early world traders and that caught admiration of political scholars and scient <br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Philippine local govenments.<br/>Economic & Moral rehabilitation.<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>T 370 1998