Refueling hope for ‘Build, Build, Build’

The government’s top socioeconomic and finance planning managers just made a welcome announcement that revived hopes the country’s priority infrastructure projects may soon rise from the ground and serve the public’s most urgent need during the term of this administration.

The Duterte government, which had set aside the previous regime’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode for project implementation in favor of official development assistance (ODA), announced this week it is open to partnerships with the private sector on the big-ticket infrastructure projects under its “Build, Build, Build” program.