Topic: Science Technology and Nation

Building
PHILIPPINE DEVELOPMENT PLAN (PDP) 2017-2022 :
NEDA ( National Economic and Development
Authority) under Pres. Rodrigo R.Duterte administration,
approves the PDP plan on February 20 , 2017, in Malacañang

Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022 is the

first medium-term plan to be anchored on a national
long-term vision, or AmBisyon Natin 2040, which
represents the collective vision and aspirations of Filipinos
for themselves and for the country
Target:
1. GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is expected to
strengthen at 7 to 8 % in the medium term
2. Poverty rate is targeted to decline
from 21.6 % to 14 %
3. Unemployment rate to reduce from current
5.5 % to 3 to 5 % by 2022
4. Highest trust in government and society
5. More resilient individuals and communities
6. A greater drive to innovation
PDP 3 Main Pillars or Solid Foundation for
Growth and Development
1. Malasakit - aims to regain people’s trust in public
institutions and cultivate trust among Filipinos.
Strategies :
 Promoting awareness of anti-corruption
measures
 Improving the productivity of the public sector
 Implementing regulatory reforms
 Increasing access to legal aid
 Pursuing correction reform
2. Pagbabago or inequality- reducing
transformation through increase
opportunities for growth of output and
income
Strategies:
 Agriculture will be expanded
 Streamline bureaucratic process for local and
foreign businesses
 Presence of NEDA in the global market
 Achieve the quality and accessible basic
education for all
 Enhancing disaster risk reduction and
management (DRRM)
 Adopting universal social protection
3. Patuloy na Pag unlad , concentrate on increasing
potential growth through sustaining and
accelerating economic growth

Strategies:
- maximizing the demographic dividend and
vigorous advancing science ,technology and
innovation
- ensure maintaining macroeconomic and financial
stability
- observing fiscal prudence
PDP Seven Main Parts
1. An overview of the economy,
2. Development challenges that lie ahead,
3. Development strategies thoroughly articulated
through chapters on Enhancing the Social Fabric,
4. Inequality-Reducing Transformation,
5. Increasing Growth Potential,
6. Enabling and Supportive Economic Environment,
7. Foundations for Inclusive and Sustainable
Development.
Three pillars lie four cross-cutting bedrock
strategies:

` (1) attaining just and lasting peace,

(2) ensuring security, public order and
safety,
(3) accelerating strategic infrastructure
development, and
(4) ensuring ecological integrity and a clean
and healthy environment.
The PDP 2017-2022 also gives special
attention to Overseas Filipinos (OFs) and their
families.

It identifies strategies and policies that will

work
- to protect the rights of overseas Filipinos
- to improve their quality of life
- to integrate them into the country’s
development
 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the monetary value of
all the finished goods and services produced within a
country's borders in a specific time period.

 Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) is a

working group of various government, non-government,
civil sector and private sector organizations of the
Government of the Republic of the Philippines established
aims to reduce the damage caused by natural hazards
like earthquakes, floods, droughts and cyclones, through
an ethic of prevention.
 NSS,
National Spatial Strategy - a traffic
reduction strategy by creating economic
opportunities in areas outside the metropolis

 NEDA Undersecretary Rosemarie G. Edillon

 Socioeconomic Planning Secretary, Ernesto M.

Pernia
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