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May 31, 20200

PEZA wants status quo on incentives

Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star) - May 30, 2020 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) wants to keep

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May 29, 20200

Company with foreign firms as clients says Create not in its ‘best form’

By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel - Reporter / @roycanivel_inq Philippine Daily Inquirer / 03:55 PM May 28, 2020   The latest versi

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May 29, 20200

EU urges PH to open economy further

Take advantage of companies relocating from China Published May 28, 2020, 10:00 PM By Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat   The 27-member states of the Eur

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May 25, 20200

Drilon challenges DTI to ‘seize’ opportunity, boost efforts to lure major firms moving out of China

By: Christia Marie Ramos - Reporter / @CMRamosINQ INQUIRER.net / 03:09 PM May 22, 2020 The Department of Trade and Indu

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May 25, 20200

Philippines to benefit from global trade redirection

Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star) - May 25, 2020 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is likely to benefit from  global trad

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May 22, 20200

BoI-approved investments plunge

By Jenina P. Ibañez, Reporter   The Board of Investments (BoI) saw pledges sink by 71% in the first four months of 2020 as the corona

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May 21, 20200

Salceda’s digital economy taxation bill (HB 6765) to raise P29.1 billion new revenues to help fill Covid-19 gap

House Ways and Means Chair Joey Sarte Salceda (Albay, 2nd district) has filed a tax bill that will capture the value created by the digital economy be

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May 21, 20200

FDI competition heats up as countries seek to fast track post-pandemic economic recovery

Warren De Guzman - May 20, 2020 Competition for foreign direct investment is ramping up as countries seek to bolster their post-pandemic economic rec

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May 21, 20200

Foreign firms to study gov’t response to Covid before investing

By Kris Crismundo - May 19, 2020, 6:27 pm MANILA – Foreign investors will consider how the government responds to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Co

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May 20, 20200

[VIDEO] PEZA seeks ‘status quo’ on incentives as COVID disrupts supply chain

ABS-CBN News | Posted at May 20 2020 09:59 AM | Updated as of May 20 2020 10:06 AM MANILA -- Import disruptions due to the COV

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May 19, 20200

Solon eyes tax on digital services

Impost on Netflix, Facebook, Google, Lazada, others to compensate for lower corporate tax rate By: Ben O. de Vera - Reporter / @bend

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May 15, 20200

Incentives key to attracting investments from firms shifting work from China

By Jenina P. Ibañez Reporter The Philippines must improve its incentives program and remove trade obstacles to remain competitive in attracting inves

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May 14, 20200

Coronavirus will reverse globalization and create regional supply chains, economists predict

PUBLISHED WED, MAY 13 20208:47 AM EDT Chloe Taylor The coronavirus crisis will fundamentally reshape global trade as companies look to reduce their de

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April 23, 20200

DoF mulls tweaks to CITIRA bill

The Department of Finance (DoF) is looking to tweak the Corporate Income Tax and Incentives Rationalization Act (CITIRA) proposal and allow the govern

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April 6, 20200

Food companies have 7 days to remove cargo from ports

April 5, 2020 | 5:33 pm   Cargo owners, which include major food companies, now have seven days to withdraw reefers from Manila’s congested por

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April 4, 20200

Coronavirus: in the Philippines, cargo containers packed with food pile up in ports amid lockdown

Some 8,200 containers – many containing much-needed supplies – are lying unclaimed in Manila’s ports due to transport restrictions and lack of pers

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April 3, 20200

How the coronavirus is reshaping Asia’s borders, business and trade

As countries turn inward, pandemic threatens the foundations of globalization PETER GUEST, Nikkei staff writer | APRIL 01, 2020 04:01 JST TOKYO -- Fr

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April 1, 20200

Covid-19 pandemic weighing on PH Electronics Industry

ANC Headstart - March 31, 2020 Cathy Yang Even before the Covid-19 crisis – the Philippines’ Semiconductor and Electronics Industry already flagged

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March 30, 20200

Abbott Launches 5-Minute Virus Test for Use Almost Anywhere

By Michelle Fay Cortez March 28, 2020, 7:21 AM GMT+8 Updated on March 28, 2020, 8:28 PM GMT+ Abbott Laboratories is unveiling a coronavirus test th

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March 26, 20200

Foreign business groups urge gov’t to address cargo delays amid ECQ

March 26, 2020 | 12:30 am By Jenina P. Ibañez Reporter Foreign business groups are urging the government to ensure the unhampered transport of food

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PHILIPPINE PROFILE

PHILIPPINE PROFILE
GDP*, 2017 6.7% y-o-y growth
GDP*, 2018 6.2% y-o-y growth
GDP, 2019 5.9% y-o-y growth
Exports, 2018 US$ 67.5 million
Exports, 2019 (as of Nov 2019) US$ 64.5 million
FDI Inflows, 2017 US$ 8.7 billionGone up!
FDI Inflows, 2018 US$ 6.5 billionGone down.
Poverty Incidence, % of Pop, 2015 21.6%
Population, 2018 106.5 million
Income Classification (WB) Lower Middle Income
*in constant 2000 prices
**in current prices

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