Palace approves new action plan for population and dev’t

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00:00 Remember the Malthusian doctrine of how population growth would overrun and outpace food supply and production,

00:06 which either famine, war, pandemic and calamity will eventually keep the population in check or balance it out.

00:13 Hence the creation of an action plan on population and development, just inked by Malacañang,

00:19 that seeks to facilitate the achieving of the objectives of a socio-economic agenda provided for in the Philippine Development Plan 2023-2028.

00:29 The memorandum circular which Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin just signed,

00:33 instructs all government agencies and local government units to positively support the Philippine Population and Action Development Plan

00:41 formulated with help from the Commission on Population Development.