Pandemic scars: More Filipinos to remain poor, unemployed even by 2022
Feb 4, 2021, Ralf Rivas MANILA, Philippines The Philippines’ poverty and unemployment rates will remain elevated even after President Rodrigo Duterte steps down from office, as the pandemic scars the labor market Philippine state economists see unemployment staying elevated and more people remaining below the poverty line until 2022, as the coronavirus pandemic leaves scars…