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April 19, 20230

Rep. Villafuerte hails MAP and AmCham support for Cha-cha to boost FDI inflow

JOVEE MARIE DE LA CRUZ | APRIL 18, 2023 3 MINUTE READ   The fresh support of foreign and local business groups for Charter change (Cha-cha) to

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April 11, 20230

[OPINION] Game-changing reforms

April 11, 2023 | 5:25 pm Introspective | By Calixto V. Chikiamco   Former President Rodrigo Duterte may have been better known (notoriously?)

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November 22, 20220

[OPINION] Business is business

TOP OF MIND - Lyn Margarita O. Palis - The Philippine Star November 22, 2022 | 12:00am   Business is business, so they say. Business owner

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June 1, 20220

Philippines loses $3.6 billion in potential investments in electronics

Louella Desiderio - The Philippine Star June 1, 2022 | 12:00am   Over $3 billion worth of investments in the manufacture of electronics product

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December 9, 20210

Foreign chambers say IPAs need leeway in tax perks

TYRONE JASPER C. PIAD DECEMBER 7, 2021 The Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) is being urged to provide investment promotion agencies (IPAs) m

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October 19, 20210

[OPINION] The economic mistakes of the Duterte administration

October 17, 2021 | 4:59 pm Introspective | By Calixto V. Chikiamco   This article is not meant to denigrate the economic achievements of the

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July 22, 20210

BIR suspends 12% VAT on exporters’ purchases

Louella Desiderio, Elijah Felice Rosales (The Philippine Star) - July 22, 2021 - 12:00am The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has agreed to s

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July 12, 20210

[OPINION] Will investors fight to stay here?

AS EASY AS ABC - Atty. Alex B. Cabrera (The Philippine Star) - July 11, 2021 - 12:00am Is the foreign soil theory for economic zones dea

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June 29, 20210

DTI favors extension of WFH setup in IT-BPM sector

Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star) - June 28, 2021 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is recommending

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April 19, 20210

CREATE IRR completed by next month

Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star) - April 19, 2021 - 12:00am The newly reconstituted Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) is targeting

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April 8, 20210

PEZA warns of investor exodus after key CREATE provision vetoed

April 8, 2021 | 12:32 am   Registered investors’ inability to apply for new incentives could lead to their departure from the country, the 

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February 23, 20210

[OPINION] On the proposed lifting of the constitutional foreign ownership restrictions

February 14, 2021 | 5:59 pm Introspective | By Raul V. Fabella The lifting of constitutional limits on foreign ownership proposed by Resolution 2

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February 10, 20210

[OPINION] Losing to Vietnam

DEMAND AND SUPPLY - Boo Chanco (The Philippine Star) - February 10, 2021 - 12:00am There had been a lot of talk about charter change to

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January 27, 20210

Neda, business groups pitch key reforms ahead of Cha-cha

By Cai Ordinario and Jovee Marie de la Cruz | January 27, 2021   The National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) has appealed to

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January 20, 20210

Finex: Sign FIST bill into law, instead of Cha-cha

By Tyrone Jasper C. Piad |  January 19, 2021   Instead of focusing on amending economic provisions of the Constitution, a business gro

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December 22, 20200

PH’s first ecological ind’l zone to rise in Leyte

By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel - Reporter / @roycanivel_inqPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 04:10 AM December 22, 2020 The Department

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December 4, 20200

CREATE may dim prospects for electronics industry

December 2, 2020 | 12:34 am The electronics exports industry is pessimistic about the longer-term growth prospects of the sector, once the measure rat

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December 3, 20200

Foreign firms eye $50-B FDI over 10 years

December 3, 2020 | 12:31 am The Joint Foreign Chambers of the Philippines is targeting to generate $50 billion in foreign direct investments (FDI) and

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November 16, 20200

Ecozone investments decline 27%

Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star) - November 14, 2020 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — Investments approved by the Philippine Economic Zone A

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November 16, 20200

[PRESS RELEASE] Industry Groups and Joint Foreign Chambers’ Supplemental Press Release on CREATE

As we go into the final days of the deliberation of CREATE by the Senate, we express our strong support for the measured and deliberate process that

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PHILIPPINE PROFILE

PHILIPPINE PROFILE
GDP, 2020 -9.5% y-o-y growth
Exports, 2019 US$ 70.9 million
Exports, 2020 US$ 63.8 million
FDI Inflows, 2020 US$ 6.5 billion
Poverty Incidence, % of Pop, 2018 16.6%
Population, 2018 106.5 million
Income Classification (WB) Lower Middle Income
*in constant 2000 prices
**in current prices

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