MANILA, Philippines - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the Philippines to relax its foreign ownership rules to improve the business cli
Read MoreBy Benjamin E. Diokno THE BENEFITS of the first ever investment-grade upgrade are grossly exaggerated. The behavior of the stock market last Monday
Read MoreFormer President Fidel V. Ramos on Tuesday called for a constitutional change that will open the country to more foreign investm
Read MoreThe government is moving towards further liberalizing the investment regime in the country as it pushed for the passage of thr
Read MoreManila needs to attract long-term investors before short-term money flees. Few investment stories in Asia were quite as exciting as the P
Read MoreThe country is back on the radar of foreign investors, President Aquino declared upon his return the other day from the World Economic Forum in Sw
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - Foreign direct investments (FDI) breached the $1-billion mark in the first seven months of the year – nearing official forecas
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The Philippine government can increase the value of foreign direct investment (FDIs) in the country by creating a more competi
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - A professor of the University of the Philippines (UP) School of Economics and fellow of the Institute for Development and Econ
Read MoreThe net inflow of foreign direct investments to the Philippines dropped in May with monetary officials blaming it on global risk aversion arising fr
Read MoreI am giving my full support to the move in both chambers of Congress to amend the economic provisions in the 1987 Constitution that unreasonably res
Read MoreLifting foreign equity limits through changes to the Constitution soon is unlikely, a ranking Trade official last week said, hinting however that a
Read MoreThe country saw net inflow of foreign direct investments (FDI) sink by nearly a third annually in February to just a tenth of the previous month’s l
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - As much as $3 billion in foreign investments in the business process outsourcing, electronics and energy sector are in the pip
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - Foreign direct investments approved by government agencies in the third quarter of the year rose by 32 percent compared to the
Read MoreSUBIC BAY FREEPORT—Total investments committed by Filipino-owned companies operating in this free port reached $1.07 billion as of the third quarter
Read MoreFOREIGN DIRECT investments (FDI) stayed positive in August but were significantly below year-ago levels amid uncertainties abroad, the Bangko Sentra
Read MoreRegional News Two years ago, when the world was in love with emerging markets, India could have attracted much of the capital it desperately needed
Read MoreThe government has scaled down its projects under the so-called public-private partnership (PPP) starting this quarter from the original 10 it had p
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