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#ASKNEDA MEDIA BRIEFING

As-Delivered Opening Statement of NEDA Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan during the #AskNEDA Media Briefing – July 19, 2023

We welcome everyone here today for our first #AskNEDA media briefing of the year. We sincerely appreciate your continued support, as it is an integral part of our endeavors under our communication initiatives. Today, I am pleased to provide updates on significant developments under NEDA’s purview and recently concluded engagements.   First, I would like to share more about our...

#ASKNEDA MEDIA BRIEFING / Philippine Development Plan

OPENING REMARKS OF ACTING SECRETARY KARL KENDRICK T. CHUA DURING THE #ASKNEDA BRIEFING ON THE UPDATED PHILIPPINE DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2017-2022

We started 2020 with a strong foundation and the country was likely to become an upper-middle income country in 2020 if not for COVID-19. Between 2015 and 2018, poverty fell from 23.5 percent to 16.7 percent of the population, lifting six million Filipinos from poverty, or four years ahead of our 2022 target.

#ASKNEDA MEDIA BRIEFING / Speeches

WELCOME REMARKS ERNESTO M. PERNIA Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning

I would like to welcome everyone to our second #AskNEDA (read: hashtag AskNEDA) media briefing for 2019. We are only in the first quarter of the year, but as you have seen, we are already welcoming several successes, in terms of policy reforms. One of them, at the top of our legislative agenda, is the Rice Tariffication Act or Republic Act 11203.