Subsidy for poorer states under federal govt urged

A federal government will only work for the Philippines if both the federal government and wealthy states are willing to subsidize the poor states, a political analyst said recently.

During ANC’s Federalism in Focus forum, Country Representative Benedikt Seeman of Konrad Adenauer Foundation noted that federalism is not only about the federal government pouring subsidy into the rest of the independent states because not all independent states will be on equal footing with subsidy from the central government alone.