Progress or payback?

The president forces out the chief anti-corruption official BENIGNO AQUINO won the presidential election almost exactly a year ago, promising to clean up the deep-rooted corruption that flourished under Ferdinand ...
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PH strong in anti-corruption laws, poor in implementation: Global Integrity 2010 Ratings Survey

Global Integrity says the country’s overall score has improved. Philippine anti-corruption laws were given a “strong” (84 out of 100 points) rating by Global Integrity, an international non-profit organization that ...
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If crucial reforms made now, PH could be one of the fastest-growing economies in the world

Both the Citi 3G report and the Asian Development Bank’s Asia 2050 Report show how this is possible. In the ADB report, the Bank posits two scenarios: payoff of proactive ...
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Philippines named one of Citi’s 3G countries

According to Citigroup’s Global Growth Generators report, the Philippines has one of the most promising per capita growth prospects in the world. Their advice: invest in human and physical capital, ...
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Restoring the Estero de Paco

With the help of innovative technology and some helping hands willing to get themselves dirty, restoration of one of the Pasig River’s tributaries is well under way. For more, read ...
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Aquino administration steps up against corruption

 In an interview by the Financial Times, President Benigno S. Aquino III declared that “we are going after tax evaders” and to prove it, the Bureaus of Internal Revenue and ...
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Corruption still top deterrent to US investment in PH

 The United States has cited various barriers to trade and investments in the Philippines that block American business’ entry into the country, but corruption, “a pervasive and longstanding problem in ...
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MAP Statement on Smuggling

The MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILIPPINES (MAP) commends the Department of Finance (DOF) for the anti-corruption steps it has already taken and for enhancing the capability of the Bureau of ...
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Update on PEZA’s activities and programs

A presentation made by Director General of PEZA  Lilia B. De Lima to the American Chamber of Commerce outlining PEZA’s shift in its major policy thrust from ceasing from directly ...
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Holidays and National Development by Gerardo P. Sicat

A new cycle of holidays will start in this new year, 2011. Our country has more holidays than most countries and some of them happen at the spur of presidential ...
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A PPP success story

 Introspective — By Romeo L. Bernardo Public Private Partnership (PPP) has been launched recently as a key ingredient in the administration’s program to address infrastructure needs, raise investment levels, and ...
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Arangkada Philippines 2010 By Edilberto C. de Jesus

THIS 400-plus page monograph, subtitled: “A Business Perspective,” was the grand, yearend gift of the Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce in the Philippines (JFCCP). With the wealth of data on business and ...
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