Job applicants wait at a counter for job vacancies offered by different local companies during a job fair at a mall in Manila yesterday. Visiting World Bank vice president for East Asia and the Pacific Axel van Trotsenburg said the Philippine government needed to convert its recent high economic growth into more jobs for ordinary Filipinos so as to succeed in reducing widespread poverty. Nearly a third of the Philippine population is considered poor.
July 15, 2013 | 08:57 PM