{"id":38726,"date":"2015-01-16T16:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T08:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=38726"},"modified":"2015-01-16T16:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T08:26:52","slug":"aquino-admin-focusing-on-socio-economic-development-programs-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/16\/aquino-admin-focusing-on-socio-economic-development-programs-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquino admin focusing on socio-economic development programs &#8212; Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37859\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Noy-Aquino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37859\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Noy-Aquino.jpg\" alt=\"President Benigno S. Aquino III delivers his speech during the Association of the Philippine Physicians in America\u2013Philippine Medical Association (APPA-PMA) Joint Congress 2015 Opening Ceremony at the Rigodon Ballroom of the Manila Hotel in One Rizal Park, Manila City on Thursday (January 08, 2015). With theme: \u201cPartnership in Advancing Healthcare in the Philippines.\u201d (Photo by Robert Vi\u00f1as\/ Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau)\" width=\"960\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Noy-Aquino.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Noy-Aquino-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Benigno S. Aquino III delivers his speech during the Association of the Philippine Physicians in America\u2013Philippine Medical Association (APPA-PMA) Joint Congress 2015 Opening Ceremony at the Rigodon Ballroom of the Manila Hotel in One Rizal Park, Manila City on Thursday (January 08, 2015). With theme: \u201cPartnership in Advancing Healthcare in the Philippines.\u201d (Photo by Robert Vi\u00f1as\/ Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Malacanang on Thursday said the Aquino administration is focusing on socio-economic development programs in a bid to take advantage of the country\u2019s human resource wealth crucial to sustaining economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said the country now finds itself in a \u201cdemographic sweet spot\u201d, where young people account for the bulk of the population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230;They (youths) are capable of being most economically productive. At the same time, this provides our country with a very valuable resource for implementing our development programs,\u201d he said in a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd as these segments of the population prosper, we are also creating a healthier economy, a broader consumer mass-based that could provide the propulsion for sustained growth,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>To take advantage of the human resource wealth, Coloma said it is imperative for the government to invest more in physical infrastructure as well as programs that will make the intellectual capacity of Filipinos become more productive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we are aware, in our national budget of Php2.6 trillion, the biggest share of the pie goes to socio-economic development and social protection. We are very much focused on our poverty reduction programs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Malacanang on Thursday said the Aquino administration is focusing on socio-economic development programs in a bid to take &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":37859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-leslie-d-venzon","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38726","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}