President Benigno S. Aquino III addresses the delegates and participants in the closing session of the 2013 Philippines Development Forum (PDF) at the Marco Polo Hotel, Davao City on 5 February 2013. The two-day session has the theme – “President Aquino’s Social Contract: Moving Forward in Achieving Inclusive Growth and Good Governance.”

In its official website, the PDF is defined as the primary mechanism of the Government for facilitating substantive policy dialogue among stakeholders on the country’s development agenda. It also serves as a process for developing consensus and generating commitments among different stakeholders toward critical actionable items of the Government’s reform agenda.

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