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Duterte’s dilemma: Aquino’s 50 slow-moving PPPs

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Juni Gonzales, ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group

<p>MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte has promised a major overhaul of the country&#x27;s creaking infrastructure and implement projects that have remained on the drawing board under his predecessors.</p><p>Former President Benigno Aquino left Duterte with a pipeline of 50 projects, including railways, toll roads and airports, under the Private Public Partnership (PPP) scheme.</p><p>Aquino&#x27;s PPP initiative did not move as fast as he had hoped. Only</p><p>three were completed under his term: phase one of the construction of new classrooms, the “beep” card payment system for the capital’s trains and the four-kilometer Daang Hari-SLEX road.</p><p>Of the 50 unfinished projects, contracts have been signed for 11 worth P284 billion while 24 others are in various stages of procurement, evaluation, and approval.</p><p>The ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group shines a spotlight on the infrastructure backlog facing the new President.</p><div><strong>(Infographic By Kimpoy Abacan)</strong></div><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/business/8/4/ppp-revisedasofaugust-4.png"/></figure></div>

<p>President Rodrigo Duterte has promised a major overhaul of the country's creaking infrastructure and implement projects that have remained on the drawing board under his predecessors.</p>

President Rodrigo Duterte has promised a major overhaul of the country's creaking infrastructure and implement projects that have remained on the drawing board under his predecessors.

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Duterte’s dilemma: Aquino’s 50 slow-moving PPPs

Juni Gonzales,

ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group

Published July 30, 2016 11:51 PM PHT

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Updated August 05, 2016 03:07 AM PHT

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