The COVID-19 pandemic severely damaged the Philippine economy, leaving 7.3 million Filipinos unemployed during the first few months of the lockdown. Left with no source of income, the national government devised a solution to provide financial assistance to marginalized and low-income families that belong to the informal economy.
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Abhinandan Dhakal, a masters student of Environmental Economics from the University of York, wanted to make a social and environmental impact. He moved back to his hometown, nestled in the Himalayas, to pursue agricultural entrepreneurship.
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The Philippines is faced with an uncertain future. Today’s pressing societal issues such as education disparity, economic inequality, food insecurity, and a strained healthcare system have negatively affected our quality of life—lives of countless Filipinos are compromised.
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Every year, about 10 million hectares of forests are destroyed. In Kalimantan alone, more than 6 million hectares were used for palm oil plantations within two decades, which contributed to the major cause of deforestation in Indonesia.
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If one were to ask, what is the purpose of education, there would not be one straightforward answer. If we were to get philosophical and idealistic at this juncture, education is about enhancing the understanding of the world, to learn, to think differently, unleash creativity and become a better person.
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“Despite many projects concerning digital media literacy provided by international organizations like “United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)”, we can’t deny the fact that Myanmar people are still weak in digital media literacy especially when the country is facing this kind of political crisis.”
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With the continued battle against COVID-19 in the Philippines, so is the continued rise in the volume of health care or medical wastes in the country. On the onset of the pandemic in 2020, the Asian Development Bank had already projected few cities which will deal with excessive amount of medical wastes, including the country’s capital, Manila, with a projection of 280 metric tons per day.
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In January of 2021, The World Bank approved an Emission Reduction (ER) project in the Terai area of Nepal, whose main objective is to make payments for emission reduction schemes through reduced forest deforestation and degradation.
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By: Marc Adrian Aguilar The Philippines had been hailed as one of the countries embracing gender equality. The Global Gender Gap Report 2020 of the World Economic Forum ranked the Philippines as the 16th on the index among the developed Scandinavian countries. The International Labor Organization detailed that the Philippines is the 5th in having the highest share of
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Well in my humble opinion, ‘She’ is the only ‘God’ but let’s understand how the world views her. It started with the existence of men (humanrace).
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