PAMANTASAN NG LUNGSOD NG MUNTINLUPA

MID-TERM EXAMINATION

Name: Angelo O. delos Santos Date: September 21, 2010

Year and Section: BS Criminology 3G

I. Match Column A with Column B. write the letter of your answer in the blank (WRITE MINUS WRONG)

A B
g 1. Manila a. 127 M
i 2. Poverty Threshold b. Employer’s side
a 3. Quezon City c. Part-time work
d 4. Strike d. Employers close shop
e 5. U.S.A. e. 2.3 M
k 6. Lockout f. 285 M
f 7. China g. 1.5 M
h 8. Japan h. 1.3 M
b 9. Supply of Labor i. Poor Families
c 10. Demand of Labor j. Worker’s reaction
k. Work stoppage

II-A Fill in the blanks to complete the minerals that abound in the Philippines (NO ERASURE)

1. M E T A L L I C MINERALS
2. L I M E ST ON E
3. P R I M AR Y __ O __ P __ E __
4. I R ON OR E
5. S I LI C A R OC K
6. A L U M I N U M
7. S I L V E R
8. N I C K E L
9. __ A __ E M __ T __ L
10. C H R O M I T E

II-B Fill in the blanks to complete the answer (NO ERASURE)

1. N A P O C O R
2. M E R A L C O
3. F O S S I L S F U E L
4. H Y D R O P O W E R
5. G EO T H E R M A L
6. D EN D R O T H E R M A L
7. C O A L T H E R M A L
8. N U C L E A R T O W E R
9. T R A N S M I S S I O N
10. E N V I R O N M E N T

III. Enumeration
1-7 Several types of Power-generating

1. Geothermal Plants
2. Fossil Fuel Power Plants
3. Hydroelectric Power Plants
 4. Oil-Based Power Plants
5. Nuclear Power Plants
6. Coal Fired Power Plants
7. others

8-9 Division of Mineral Ore Reserves

8. Ferroalloy Division
a. Chrome ore
b. Manganese ore
c. Iron-manganese ore
9. Iron Ore Division
a. Iron ore

10-17 Some suggested strategies and policies to solve unemployment

10. Increased government spending

11. Government lowers income taxes 
12. Lower corporate taxes
13. Investment in worker training
14. Offer more jobs by encouraging investor to start their business here
15. Forming partnerships with the business community
16. Retraining programs tied to specific communities and regions
17. Job creation by  training people to do certain jobs

18-20 Labor Problems

18. Age discrimination
19. lack of benefits from the company
20. Very low salary

IV. Define the following terms

1. Unemployed – Not engaged in a gainful occupation.

2. Underemployed – Employed only part-time when one needs full-time employment or not
making full use of your skills.
3. Strike – Stop work in order to press demands.
4. Contractualization – A contractual arrangement or relationship involves a legal agreement between
people.
5. Demand for Labor – A concept that describes the amount of demand for labor that an economy or
firm is willing to employ at a given point in time.
6. Supply for Labor – The number of total hours that workers wish to work at a given real wage rate .

7. Meralco – The Philippines largest distributor of electrical power.

8. Hydroelectric Power Plants – The production of electrical power through the use of the gravitational
force of falling or flowing water.
 9. Geothermal Plants – A plant in which a turbine is driven either from hot water or by natural steam
that derives its energy from heat found in rocks or fluids at various depths beneath the surface of the
earth.
10. Lockout – Is a work stoppage in which an employer prevents employees from working.

ENERGY INVESTEMENTS

Investments in the energy sector went full stream ahead last week capped by the successful auction of
the 360-megawatt Magat hydroelectric power plant in Ramon, Isabela Province. In an earlier development,
United States energy group Mirant Corp, sold its power assets in the Philippines for $3.42 billion to a
consortium of The Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Marubeni Corp. of Japan.

PNOC Energy Development Corporation, the geothermal producers’ subsidiary of state owned
Philippines National Oil Co., made an impressive record of its successful debut, having listed 5.2 billion in
primary and secondary shares and generating up to P16.7 billion proceed to the state coffers.

Investor’s interest in Philippine energy assets having reached a new peak has showed picture different
from the situation two years ago when investors were reluctant to invest on energy projects, especially in the
power sector, because of political and economic uncertainties and the bureaucratic maze evident in
government auctions.

Electricity demand in the Philippines will continue to grow as long as the economy expands
consistently at a faster pace. Because of the power sectors being directly liked to production, the power sector
is one of the critical components of economic growth. It is important therefore, for the government to ensure
investments in the power sector to achieve the government’s goal of reducing power cost in the country.

Questions:
1. How much was the bid for:
a. Magat Power Plant? The Magat power plant is the second facility successfully bid out by PSALM
this year as it duplicated the success of the 112-MW Pantabangan – Masiway Powe complex
auctioned off in September.
b. Mirant Power Plant?

2. Why is it important for power plants to be privatized?

3. What is the significance of the PNOC-Energy Development Corporation’s initial public offering to
increase from P3.20 share to P4.55 per share?

4. Why is the power sector critical to the Philippines economy?

- Important sectors of the Philippnes economy include agriculture and industry, particularly food
processing; textiles and garments ; and electronics and automobile parts .
Most industries are concentrated in the urban areas around metropolitan MANILA.
Mining also has great potential in the Philippines, which possesses significant reserves of
Chromite, nickel and copper. Significant natural gas finds off the islands of Palawan have added
To the country’s substancial geothermal, hydro and coal energy reserves.