Early in October this year, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) led a virtual signing ceremony for the contracts that will kickstart the construction of the Malolos-Clark Railway Project. This 54-kilometer railway link is part of the planned North-South Commuter Railway System in Luzon, one of the largest infrastructure projects in the Duterte administration’s Build, Build, Build program. It could also very well be our country’s road to recovery.
The measures that were put in place to stem the spread of the coronavirus disease led to unprece-dented declines in economic activity. According to the World Bank, the global recession we are now in is the deepest since World War 2, and the Asian Development Bank expects economies in developing Asia to contract in 2020 for the first time in nearly 60 years.
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