The Philippines needs to fast-track efforts to create jobs for 69.4 million working age Filipinos, according to the Commission on Population and Development (Popcom). Know more:
THE Philippines needs to fast-track efforts to create jobs for 69.4 million working age Filipinos, according to the Commission on Population and Development .
“To fully tap this significant quantity of workers, the national government needs to provide steady streams of quality jobs, while capacitating them appropriately so that they can acquire needed skills by industries,” Popcom Officer in Charge-Executive Director Lolito R. Tacardon said. He also echoed Popcom’s position during World Population Day in July that “young [adolescent] Filipinos who comprise about 20 percent of the Philippines’s population and [its women will play a crucial part in the attainment of its much-aspired demographic dividend in the near future . . . They will comprise] a vital segment of the local workforce and employment, as well as contribute to national economic gains.
Tacardon then urged the private sector, as well national and local leaders, to set policies and provide programs that can capture the benefit of having a larger work force. Meanwhile, he explained that the rise in the number of productive Filipinos is a result of collective efforts in reducing the levels of fertility and mortality nationwide.
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