With roughly a year to go in the Duterte administration, its much-ballyhooed “Build, Build, Build” infrastructure program got a reality check.
According to presidential adviser on flagship programs and projects Vivencio Dizon, out of 119 projects in that program, 11 have been completed while 29 are expected to be finished by the end of 2022, or six months after President Duterte bows out of office.
Dizon said the 51 projects that were in various stages of preparation would be finished by 2023 and beyond. He expressed hope the next administration would implement those projects.
Recall that shortly after the administration came to power in 2016, its economic managers said the next…
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