because of its strategic location. Infrastructure links people to services, markets, and jobs and help people to live healthy and productive lives. It supports economic activity such as agriculture, manufacturing, fishing, livelihood programs, tourism, and trade of goods and services, and assists with the delivery of health and education services. Reliable roads mean that farmers can take their produce to market, children can get to schools, and the sick can get to hospitals. Access to electricity means that children can study at home in the evenings and teachers can prepare their lesson plans in next day’s class. Infrastructure projects connect one island to other islands in the Philippines because this country faces significant challenges to infrastructure service provision since it has a large number of small islands and archipelagos, with different infrastructure requirements. Population is often isolated, with low population densities living in rural areas that tend to have least access to infrastructure services. Infrastructure services are particularly vulnerable to damage in natural disasters and the cost of infrastructure rehabilitation can be substantial. Without proper maintenance, infrastructure assets have a short life and considerable investment is required to rebuild. Wall Street Analysts and Wall Street billionaires are encouraged to fund and maintain core infrastructure in the Philippines while doing manufacturing and exporting businesses.
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