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The World Bank expects a deeper economic downturn in the Philippines this year due to uncertain prospects as the still uncontrolled coronavirus pandemic will certainly take a heavier toll on poverty. Based on  October 2020 Economic Update for East Asia and the Pacific , Washington-based...

To fully transform the agriculture sector, the Department of Agriculture (DA) must be given a higher budget, ideally more than P100 billion, that is proportional to the sector’s contribution to the country’s total gross domestic product (GDP), a top DA official said. Farm workers thresh rice...