After Ondoy and Pepeng, Now Comes the Hard Part

After Ondoy and Pepeng, Now Comes the Hard Part

The challenge that policy makers now face is how to raise the needed resources to fund in a sustainable manner and without placing additional burden on Filipinos the requirements of relief and rehabilitation.

By ARNOLD PADILLA
Bulatlat.com

MANILA — As hundreds of thousands still remain in evacuation centers and tens of thousands more in danger of being displaced from flooding caused by a series of typhoons that hit Metro Manila and Luzon provinces in the past two weeks, questions on how to comprehensively deal with the social and economic impact of the calamity have remained largely unaddressed.

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