President Marcos Jr. signed this week an executive order adopting the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) to achieve by 2028 a bold and ambitious target: “reinvigorate job creation and accelerate poverty reduction by steering the Philippine economy back to its high-growth trajectory, and effect economic and social transformation for a prosperous, inclusive, and resilient society.” That’s quite a mouthful and cynics will be quick to dismiss the PDP, which fleshes out the Marcos Jr. administration’s eight-point socioeconomic
The one on trial in the most recent International Criminal Court (ICC) decision was not a person, but a country—the Philippines. Our country was virtually on trial because the question that was decided upon by the ICC was whether the Philippines was conducting “proactive” investigation on whether the multiple crimes that took place in Davao City, Davao region, and in the entire Philippines, from 2011 to 2019, principally as part of the “war on drugs,” were part of a “widespread and systematic attack on a civilian population” that was made pursuant to a state policy. The verdict was that the
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