{"id":269587,"date":"2020-09-23T04:33:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T08:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=269587"},"modified":"2020-09-23T04:33:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T08:33:07","slug":"ph-committed-to-reaching-sustainable-development-goals-prrd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/23\/ph-committed-to-reaching-sustainable-development-goals-prrd\/","title":{"rendered":"PH committed to reaching Sustainable Development Goals: PRRD"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_269025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269025\" style=\"width: 749px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Innovation-in-gov\u2019t-crucial-for-PH-resilience-economic-recovery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-269025\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Innovation-in-gov\u2019t-crucial-for-PH-resilience-economic-recovery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Innovation-in-gov\u2019t-crucial-for-PH-resilience-economic-recovery.jpg 749w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Innovation-in-gov\u2019t-crucial-for-PH-resilience-economic-recovery-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-269025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duterte said the country was able to reduce the poverty rate to 16.6 percent; and a sustained economic growth rate of 6.4 percent between 2010 and 2019.\u00a0(File photo: @jcgellidon\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Philippines remains committed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In his pre-recorded speech at the High-Level Debate of the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Duterte assured that the Philippine government will continue to address poverty, hunger, and good-health, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite this downward pressure on growth, the Philippines remains committed to the Sustainable Development Goals,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p>The SDGs were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte said the country was able to reduce the poverty rate to 16.6 percent; and a sustained economic growth rate of 6.4 percent between 2010 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the Philippines was supposedly on track to becoming an upper-middle income country by the end of 2020 until the health crisis placed the economy in recession.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that the country has officially entered into recession for the first time in almost 30 years with a 16.5-percent economic plunge in the second quarter due to lockdowns<\/p>\n<p>Malaca\u00f1ang, however, expressed optimistic about recovery as the economy starts to reopen after months of coronavirus-linked lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have hit rock bottom and the only way to go is up,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a press conference last Sept. 10.<\/p>\n<p>He urged public to unite in efforts to rebuild the economy while observing minimum health and safety standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippines remains committed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, President Rodrigo Duterte &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":269025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269604,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269587\/revisions\/269604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}