
Dominador Canoy, 42, who earns an average of six US dollars per day collecting plastic bottles floating on the river, prepares his makeshift raft made of styrofoam in his house erected at the banks of Pasig River in Manila on August 19, 2016. The Philippine economy expanded 7.0 percent in the second quarter, official data showed August 18, but President Rodrigo Duterte's new government said major changes were needed to fix one of Asia's biggest rich-poor divides. / AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELISNOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images

