The article looks at investment in the Philippines as of April 2013, citing statistics on net foreign direct investment inflows and reporting on investments in the country by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners as well as by Japanese companies including construction company Sumitomo.Saigal...
MANILA, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Foreign investors have pumped in 286.7 billion pesos (about 5.52 billion U.S. dollars) into the Philippines during the first four months of 2019, Philippine Trade Secretary and Board of Investments (BOI) Chairman Ramon Lopez said on Monday. From January to April t...
In the past, the barriers for international companies doing business in the Philippines were restrictive. Foreign investors couldn’t fully own ventures in the country, and there were other operational restrictions, a lack of transparency in procurement tenders and inadequate public inves...
Lopez, who is also chairman of the Board of Investments, told Xinhua that China topped the list of foreign investors in the Philippines in 2018 with 48.7 billion pesos worth of investments "because of one big investment" project approved in December last year - the integrated iron steel plant ...
As early as November last year, Trade Undersecretary and Board of Investments (BOI) Managing Head Ceferino Rodolfo has sounded off to Chinese investors to "expand and diversify" further their businesses in the Philippines. Rodolfo said the Philippines has one of the largest deposits for both nicke...
one or two factors. Perhaps, in actual fact, 2014 was just a “freak” year; total FDI for 2013 was recorded at $3.7bn. The impending 2016 elec- tions may also be having an effect, as foreign investors wait to assess the impact on the Philippines’ existing policies on foreign ...
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(Montecillo,2013). For bureaucrats, rules and regulations became increasingly difficult to implement because of political appointees or corrupt public official networks within the political machinery. Indeed, this was the experience of many Chinese and international private investors in the Philippine ...
There is no shortage of investment opportunities, andstarting a business in the Philippinesnow may be the best business move you can make. In an exclusive interview with DTI Secretary, Ramon Lopez, he cited the top industries that foreign direct investors would be wise to take part in. Such ...