Innovating Governance: Building Resilience Against the Covid-19 Pandemic and other Risks

This issue of the Economic Policy Monitor focuses on long-standing structural and governance problems hampering the COVID-19 response of the Philippines. It highlights issues on human resources, information systems, coordination, public participation, public trust in governance, and the government’s bureaucratic organization. It also provides policy updates on poverty reduction and social protection; gender; health; education; labor and employment; agriculture; environment and natural resources; energy; infrastructure; science, technology, and innovation; smart cities; trade and industry; services; and fiscal policy.