MANILA, Philippines – Despite stellar economic growth and improved ranking in the most widely followed competitiveness survey, business groups still u
Read MoreThe government should amend the retail trade law as it imposes various restrictions to foreign retail investors wanting to do business in the country.
Read MoreBusiness groups ask President Aquino and Congress for more urgent economic legislation Leading Philippine Business Groups and Joint F
Read MoreLast June, Philippine Business Groups (PBG) including the Joint Foreign Chambers (JFC) sent a letter to President Aquino listing key issues and propos
Read MoreMAJOR business groups have pressed President Benigno S. C. Aquino III to focus on some long-standing issues in the remaining three years of his term
Read MorePresident Aquino has a ready answer for those tirelessly reviving Charter change (Cha-cha) at every opportunity: No. Aquino thumbed down Cha-cha an
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines --- The Philippines may need to go on a non-working holiday diet to be more “attractive” to foreign and local investors, the Depar
Read MoreFurther development of the Philippines' information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and creating a nurturing environm
Read MoreMANILA - The government has made inroads at improving the business environment and growing the economy, but further reforms ha
Read MoreThe Philippine Air Services Negotiating Panel is eyeing air talks with at least seven more nations as it aligns the Department of Touris
Read MoreThe National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) aims to accelerate infrastructure spending to increase its share of the gross domesti
Read MoreCriticism continues to mount over the government’s apparent inability to set a definite course on the development of the Clark
Read MoreTHE GOVERNMENT last year moved on more reforms prescribed by the Joint Foreign Chambers of the Philippines (JFC) in December 2010, according to
Read MoreTHE government must immediately focus on plugging what former Finance Secretary Roberto de Ocampo described as a gaping “smuggling hole”
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines --- Congress is committed to the removal of “structural impediments” to investments and encourages aggressive progra
Read MoreOur economy’s growth rate may have stepped up to 6.6 percent from 3.9 percent in 2011, but that’s still not quite growing twice as fast—
Read MoreThe Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce in the Philippines said it believed that while economic growth in the Philippines was very encour
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