The Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) yesterday submitted eight policy recommendations to the Marcos administration, touching on controversial issues that have led what it called are a crisis in education, health and food.
The group said policy and program support and public investments must prioritize the people and the country’s lands.
To address the education crisis, MAP proposes for the return to full face-to-face in all schools that are in non-high-risk areas
To make quality health care accessible, MAP proposes the overhaul of Philippine Health Insurance Corp.’s leadership and management, including investment in technology-enabled management systems and private outsourcing of certain functions.
On agriculture, MAP is pushing for farm consolidation while declaring the completion of agrarian reform and lift land ownership ceilings on farm lands.
Other recommendations include: ensure a trade and industry policy environment that fosters level competition, lowers costs of doing business, and encourages productivity-enhancing innovation; sustaining the gains of the Build, Build, Build program by prioritizing infrastructure of greatest strategic importance, and to resume active pursuit of Public-Private Partnerships in infrastructure development; labor market and employment policies that allow for flexibility; fiscal and financial policies be supportive of business enterprises, especially micro, small and medium enterprises, to promote wider job-generation and; justice and the rule of law must always be upheld if business confidence is to be sustained. – Irma Isip
