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BPO remains optimistic on expansion outlook after growing by 5.1% in 2018

The I.T. & Business Process Association of the Philippines remains hopeful about its growth outlook in 2019 despite the government’s planned rationalization of tax incentives. 

[Read more in the Manila Standard]

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New technologies will create new types of jobs and better productivity, not job loss—DTI Chief

Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon Lopez dispelled fears over possible job losses due to the emerging new technologies in various industries.

[Read more in Balikbayan Asian Journal]

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Exemption sought for 9 cities from ecozone ban

The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) has requested anew the Office of the President (OP) to exempt nine cities in Metro Manila from the ongoing ban on new economic zones and to give ecozone developers with pending ecozone applications more time to complete their requirements.

[Read more in Philstar]

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The Philippines as innovation achiever

The country’s continuing efforts to improve has once again been recognized as we inched up in rankings of this year’s Global Innovation Index (GII). Published by the World Intellectual Property Organization in coordination with Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business and the European Institute of Business Administration, the index is an annual benchmarking exercise of the innovation performance of 129 countries and economies around the world, including the Philippines. 

[Read more in Business Mirror]

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FLI’s New Clark City declared as ecozone

FLI said the company and the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA), its partner for New Clark City, signed the Registration Agreement with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (Peza).

[Read more in Business Mirror]

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More ecozones in Mindanao pushed

The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) and the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) are pushing for the creation of economic zones in Mindanao in line with President Duterte’s directive to promote economic activity in the countryside.

[Read more in Philstar]