President Arroyo implemented programs empowering women including the establishment of the Movement Against Sexual Abuse (MASA). Arroyo also established computer literate programs in all secondary level public schools.
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While president, Macapagal worked to suppress graft and corruption and to stimulate the Philippine economy. He placed the peso on the free currency-exchange market, encouraged exports, passed the country’s first land-reform legislation, and sought to curb income tax evasion, particularly by the wealthiest families, which cost the treasury millions of pesos yearly.