Fast Facts About the Philippines: An Investor's Guide

FAST FACTS ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES Hailed as Asia's rising star, the Philippines has seen massive growth in the past year. With its active real estate sector, continued BPO investments, and high remittances from OFWS, the country is on an upward trend. If you are thinking of investing in the Philippines, here are the latest news that you would want to know about. II POLITICS $ INVESTMENTS Went 4 steps up in 2013 Global Peace PEZA investments grew by 157% Index (Rank 129th) Netherlands - $2.2B Universal Health Care became a law Japan - $5.2B British Virgin Islands - $19.6B More ECONOMIC bills underway: e.g. Fair "OVERT Competition Law DPWH saved 16.35B from corruption Foreign investments increased by 86.7% Nordic companies invested the ECONOMY country: Tieto and Sonion I Ranks 97th in investment freedom and Healthcare outsourcing growth: $1B reduction in corruption industry to employ 100,000 Filipinos in I OFW Remittances reached $1.8B, 2016 increasing by 5.7% Singapore-based DBS Ltd.: Philippines 1ST QUARTER ECONOMIC GROWTH:7.8% has the highest growth potential among TIP countries INFRASTRUCTURE BUSINESS COMPANIES LISTED ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE P1.9B construction ЖW improvements for NAIA Terminal 3 Retail Banks Construction MEGAWORLD merged different units MARKET CAPITALIZATION LRT 1 extension project to Bacoor, Cavite in the works Infrastructure Media IMPROVED PROFITS BY 23% REACHING P163.42B IS P135.23B source: eccp brought to you by: KMC Solutions KMC MAG EUROPEAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE PHILIPPINES Group savills