ICYMI: Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic would be the first order of business for Vice President Leni Robredo, if elected president in 2022, to restore jobs that have been lost due to the crisis.
“I have never subscribed to the false dichotomy of health versus the economy. For me, for us to be able to open our economy again, we have to control the virus first. We have to control the transmission first,” Robredo said on Thursday.
According to her, the country’s foreign investments have taken a dip in recent years, and part of the reason is that investors are not confident with the situation in the country. “As far as our local economy is concerned, we all know for a fact that a large swath of our businesses are MSMEs. A lot of them closed shop during the pandemic and that is equivalent to a lot of jobs lost. So one of the things I’ve been pushing since last year was not just offering low interest loans to our MSMEs. But really providing for a stimulus package for them,” she added.
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