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Announcements and Invitations

The Philippine-American Educational Foundation (PAEF) is accepting institutional applications to host specialists to the Fulbright Specialist Program. The Fulbright Specialist Program sends United States faculty and professionals to serve as expert consultants on curriculum, faculty development, institutional planning, and related subjects at academic institutions in the Philippines for a period of 2 to 6 weeks. The program allows Filipino universities, cultural centers, non-governmental organizations and other institutions in the Philippines to develop collaborative projects which will host a leading U.S. academic or professional at their institution to work on diverse, short-term collaborative projects focused on education and training. For more information, kindly visit the link: https://www.worldlearning.org/…/fulbright-specialist-progr…/. You may directly contact the PAEF at telephone no. (02) 819-0919 or via e-mail at fulbright@fulbright.org.ph.

Population (As of August 1, 2015)	5,796,989
Population Growth Rate (2016-2017)	1.9%
Land Area (sq.km)	17,632.51
Average Household Size 2015	4.8
Annual Per Capita Poverty Threshold (2018)	Php 11,946
GRDP per capita 2018 (current)	Php 56,800
GRDP 2018 (current prices)	Php374,317,685.00
Poverty Incidence 2018 (population)	28.0%
Labor Force Participation Rate (July 2019)	62.3%
Employment Rate (July 2019)	95%
Underemployment Rate (July 2019)	25.5%
Unemployment Rate (July 2019)	5%