Sectors seen vital to PH recovery tagged

By Anna Leah E. Gonzales

Oct 11, 2021 1:05 am

Infrastructure, as well as manufacturing and information technology and business process outsourcing (IT-BPO), are among the sectors that will play vital roles in the effort to revive the Philippine economy, which contracted by a record 9.6 percent last year.

'The infrastructure program has been a major growth driver and will be crucial in our economic recovery,' Socieconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua said, noting that pre-pandemic economic growth had been driven by infrastructure.

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