The Philippines has made significant progress in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals, an expert from the Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS) said.

Speaking at a policy dialog coorganized by PIDS and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Unescap) last week, PIDS senior research fellow Jose Ramon Albert said in terms of SDG on quality education, the country “has seen marked improvements”, with basic education performance indicators, such as completion and cohort survival rates, having significantly improved.