Visiting World Bank East Asia and Pacific regional vice president Pamela Cox (left) speaks to a child whose mother is receiving financial help from the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer programme in Taguig, Metro Manila, yesterday. Through the Pantawid Pamilya (Family Subsistence) programme in the Philippines, about 3mn poor households get small grants from the government if they take their children to health centres regularly and keep them in school. Cox is in the country attending a four-day Asian Development Bank (ADB) 45th Annual Board of Governors meeting in Manila.
