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PHILIPPINE Statistics Authority enumerators taking pictures of pre-registrant for verification purposes at Cagayan, Olongapo City and Tuguegarao.
PHILIPPINE Statistics Authority enumerators taking pictures of pre-registrant for verification purposes at Cagayan, Olongapo City and Tuguegarao.
PHILIPPINE Statistics Authority enumerators taking pictures of pre-registrant for verification purposes at Cagayan, Olongapo City and Tuguegarao.
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Reporter
REYNALDO L. ANGARA, 70, a barangay chairman in Tondo, Manila, confessed to struggling with distributing Social Amelioration Program (SAP) cash aid in April, when poor recipients needed it most after the lockdown took away their ability to earn a livelihood.
The main difficulty, he said, was the inability of many to produce valid and reliable identification.
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Companies continued to see a decline in revenues in the third quarter, even as the government started loosening lockdown restrictions. â REUTERS
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Researcher
GROSS REVENUE generated by firms continued to decline in the third quarter, albeit at a slower pace compared with the plunge seen in the second quarter, as lockdown restrictions slowly eased amid the pandemic, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Thursday.
Data from the PSAâs Quarterly Economic Indices report showed the total gross revenue index (GRI) slumped by 13.1% year on year in the third quarter. This marked an improvement from the record-high contraction of 26.4% in the second quarter but was a reversal of the 7.8% growth in the third quarter of 2019.
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MARITES A. SOTELO, 53, owns a small food store near a public school in Alicia, Isabela â scene of some of the worst Cagayan Valley floods after Typhoon Ulysses (international name: Vamco) in November.
That means that on top of the pandemic, which deprived her of her clientele after the schools closed, Ms. Sotelo has had to deal with the economic damage done to her town by the typhoon, which caused the Cagayan River to overflow its banks â to the extent that she wishes for more government aid for small businesses.
Her plight, multiplied millions of times across the country, has helped create unprecedented demand for stimulus funds, with Congress enacting economic revival packages in the hundreds of billions of pesos. Meanwhile, economic managers have tried to persuade legislators to accept smaller amounts, citing limits to the resources available to the government.
Having a good ID system is necessary for achieving sustainable development. Providing a legal identity for all is one of the objectives under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) as cited in SDG No. 16, which is to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.” Hence, the establishment of the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) with the identification called PhilID, a non-transferrable foundation identity card that shall be issued to citizens and resident aliens living in the Philippines.
To jumpstart the operation in the province of Siquijor, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) here shared during a Pulong-Pulong with the Siquijor Association of Information Disseminators (SAID) that it is constantly coordinating with the local government units of the province in preparation for the PhilSys which is set to start in 2021.
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