Where are the jobs?

QUITE surprisingly, the Philippine economy, as measured by its gross domestic product (GDP), registered a 6.6-percent growth in the fourth quarter of last year despite the destruction brought by Super Typhoon Yolanda and the earthquake that devastated Bohol and Cebu. For the whole of 2013, the economy grew by 7.2 percent. Given two consecutive years of GDPs of above 7 percent, it will take another eight years of similar growth for the economy to double in size.

But even if the economy has demonstrated resiliency, a nagging question begs an answer: where are the jobs?