12. $164.7-BUILD-BUILD-BUILD: Meanwhile, while the pandemic has slowed down Duterte’s “Build-Build-Build”, an Php8 trillion ($164.7 billion) infrastructure program, various projects had been restarted. The move is seen, in part, as an antidote to years of neglect of infrastructure, lack of jobs, poverty, communist insurgency and separatism that had plagued the country for decades. Duterte has also encouraged private companies to fork out billions of dollars for big-ticket projects, including airports, skyways, power plants, iconic bridges. | https://gn24.ae/823385bdf80f000
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