Manufacturing spurs growth and creates jobs, including white collar jobs, for the middle and lower classes.

Thus declared Lilia Ramos Shahani, assistant secretary and communications head of the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster Communication, during the 9th Annual Meeting and Scientific Convention of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), an advisory body of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), held at the PICC last July 8.

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