A world Bank report released last Monday said that for the projected transition, the Philippines “will need to ensure that its population is equipped with the education, skills and health necessary to meet the demands of a more complex and competitive economic landscape.”
As defined by the World Bank, the HCI measures the contribution of health and education to the productivity of the next generation of workers. “Filipino children born today are projected to be only about half as productive when they reach adulthood as they could be,” the World Bank report noted. The rains have come but on most days, we still grapple with furnace-like heat, boosting demand for power aside from the usual economic activities – from manufacturing to construction to everything else in the...
An official from the Department of Justice echoed a favorite catch-all phrase – “whole of government” approach. It was put forward as a way to check the Philippine offshore gaming operators industry...