As we saw in Part 1, the Philippines will continue to have a young and growing population for at least the next 40 years, time enough to give our present and future leaders the opportunity to introduce the necessary reforms in our political and economic institutions so that by the decade of 2040 to 2050, the Philippine economy shall have attained high-income status and, more importantly, bring down the poverty incidence as much as possible close to zero, as Singapore and Malaysia have already done.
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