The fourth pillar of the Duterte Administration’s socioeconomic strategy against COVID-19 aimed for an economic recovery program to create jobs and sustain growth. The COVID-19 resilience ranking (Bloomberg, June 2021) measures the success of 53 largest economies (valued at more than $200 billion) in containing the COVID-19 pandemic with least amount of social and economic disruption. Bloomberg considers various datasets, indicators, and indexes produced by organizations worldwide and applies three fundamental criteria—1) how complete is the data, 2) how current is the data, and 3) who collects the data—in whittling the list down to the 12 indicators that make up the Ranking. The data indicators are aggregated through the “max-min” method and scored on a 0-100 scale with 100 indicating the best performance and zero the worst, except on some indicators when the opposite applies.
