MANILA, Philippines — Local and national agencies are conducting their own assessments on specific measures where they gave themselves high scores o
Read Morevia chartsbin.com The 2012 Index of Economic Freedom by The Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal tracks the economic success of 184 countri
Read MoreThis is a partially re-posted article. THE GOVERNMENT needs to move beyond trimming red tape if the Philippines is to improve its global ranking, a c
Read Morevia chartsbin.com Released Dec. 1, 2011, the 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International ranked 183 countries according to the
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. A great leader is single minded, he has a vision and sticks to it. Regardless. President Benigno Aquino III has th
Read MoreTHE PHILIPPINES has lost ground in global tax rankings published by the World Bank and the International Finance Corp. (IFC), having been overtaken
Read MoreTHE PHILIPPINES advanced in this year’s edition of the United Nation’s Human Development Report but it remains in the bottom half of an annual ranki
Read MoreThe Philippines, where women and men enjoy the same access to education, remains in the top 10 countries with the least gender gap, according to the
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. The Philippines did it again—fell in an international ranking. This time it is the World Bank’s Doing Business Rep
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines—The good news is that the Philippines is moving forward in terms of business competitiveness. The bad news is that it’s not movi
Read MoreAn international survey has ranked the Philippines among the countries with the lowest competitiveness in the field of information technology (IT).
Read MoreThe Philippine government has announced plans to step up spending on transport infrastructure, with upgrades to existing ports and the development o
Read MoreThis is a re-posted op-ed piece. A year and a half into a new administration, it has become harder to do business in this country. This is according
Read MoreThe Philippines dropped further behind other emerging markets in the region when it fell two notches in the global ranking on ease of doing business
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. I wrote in a previous column that the World Economic Forum (WEF) had just released the 2011-2012 edition of the Gl
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The recent improvement in global competitiveness of the Philippines in the World Economic Forum (WEF) ranking leaves
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — I share the disappointment of our leading universities over the drop in their global rankings. No Philippine university made i
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines ranks at the very bottom – where it is tied with Bangladesh – of a recent su
Read MorePOOR airport facilities, poor quality of roads, safety and security, and corruption are among the reasons the Philippines fall behind other Southeas
Read MoreTHE PHILIPPINES slipped a notch in a list of 66 economies ranked according to support they give information technology (IT) firms in a biennial surv
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