As the Philippines’ population growth rate has drastically slowed down, the country now has a window of opportunity to experience faster economic growth, as the working population makes up a larger share of the total population, according to an expert.

“We have an opportunity to experience an economic growth that we have not seen before or could not have imagined,” said Jose “Oying” G. Rimon II, founding director of the William H. Gates Sr. Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. He told BusinessWorld on Thursday at the sidelines of the National Population, Health and Environment Conference....

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