The big-ticket infrastructure projects currently rolled out by the government will create an additional 1.6 million jobs this year, President Duterte’s infrastructure managers said on Wednesday.
Public Works Secretary Mark Villar told the Asia Infrastructure Forum 2021 the government’s “Build, Build, Build” program had so far created 6.5 million jobs as public infrastructure spending was doubled to 5 percent of gross domestic product from an average of 2 percent during previous administrations.
In a separate forum, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua said the government would continue to spend more on infrastructure, having programmed more than P1 trillion in expend…
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