The Philippines can learn a lot from the way China has developed its infrastructure, a World Bank official said on Friday. “China’s approach … could be emulated in the Philippines during the implementation of the government’s ‘Build Build Build’ program,” World Bank country director Mara Warwick said during The Manila Times 6th Business Forum at the Marriott Hotel in Pasay City. China, she said, placed a lot of emphasis on developing a system for infrastructure delivery over the past three decades. Local capacity, said Warwick, is a key constraint in the Philippines and was also an issue in China. The “Build Build Build” program was the subject of Friday’s forum, which carried the theme “Philippines 2021: Toward the Golden Age of Infrastructure.

Source: Manila Times August 18, 2017 16:52 UTC