| Northern
Samar ranks second in 30 Best Performing Provinces
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Gov.
Raul Daza |
National
Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) secretary general Romulo
Virola recently congratulated Northern Samar Governor Raul
Daza after NSCB named it second best among the 30 best performing
provinces in the entire Philippines.
The ranking is based on NSCB’s Good Governance Index
(GGI), a combined economic and administrative governance performance
rating.
Economic
governance is measured in terms of financial resources generated,
tax and non-tax revenue, per capita bank deposits, expenditure
on social services, employment rate and poverty incidence
in the province.
On
the one hand, administrative performance, is influenced by
factors as number of health personnel per thousand population,
percentage of live births weighing less than 2.5 kilo, proportion
of households with access to safe water, teacher to pupil
ratio, number of elementary schools per thousand population,
enrolment rate and cohort survival rate in elementary education,
length of national and local roads per thousand population
and proportion of energized barangays.
In its GGI Report, NSCB named Northern Samar second highest
in performance for 2000-2003 with a 36-notch improvement from
rank 72 in 2000 to rank 36 in 2003. Northern Samar got 63.35
points in 2000 and improved to 90.58 points in 2003, or a
difference of 27.23.
Third-termer
Daza, who was first elected in 2001, expressed hope that the
province’s performance rating will further improve with
the consistent implementation of his administration’s
FLESHER (Food, Livelihood, Education, Shelter, Health, Environment
and Revenue Generation) development program for Northern Samar.
(Arlyn Cui-Tepace)
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