‘Don’t blame PH economic woes on population growth’

The Duterte administration’s experts should stop sticking to the wrong policy of past administrations that blamed the country’s economic woes on population growth, according to Rep. Lito Atienza of Buhay party-list.

“I am very disappointed that the President’s economic planners are still in the habit of using the country’s growing population as an alibi for failure, as previous administrations have done before them,” Atienza, also House senior deputy leader, said on Friday at the start of budget hearings in Congress.