Gov’t banking on digitalization to attain PH growth goals

With lingering challenges to sustained recovery from pandemic, the government is pinning its hopes on digitalization efforts to meet its goals for the next sixth years of growing the domestic economy by 6.5 to 8 percent and slashing poverty incidence to 9 percent of the population.

Economic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan on Friday said adopting digital technologies across the government system would be crucial in the latest iteration of the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) that is being crafted and, which would cover the years 2023 to 2028, coinciding with the term of President Marcos.

Balisacan was addressing a gathering of economic planners from both the Executive and Legi…

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