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Interviews & Viewpoints | Milagros Ong-How, Executive Vice-President, Universal Harvester Incorporated: Interview from The Report: The Philippines 2016
Articles & Analysis | New farming techniques aim to maximise the Philippines' sugarcane resources from The Report: The Philippines 2016
Sugar is the Philippines’ third-most-valuable cash crop export behind bananas and pineapples, and it retains a unique position in the country due to its value both as an export commodity and a crucial input for the domestic biofuels programme. This double-edged demand has led to a substantially undersupplied domestic market, as biofuel...
Articles & Analysis | Efforts to boost yields make the Philippines' agricultural sector more competitive from The Report: The Philippines 2016
Strong global market prices for food commodities served as the primary growth engine for the agriculture sector in 2014, led by rice, corn and fruit crops. Although production has remained largely static over the past few years for most crops in the Philippines for a variety of reasons – including a lack of mechanisation, very little expansion...
Articles & Analysis | High consumer spending and the young population create ICT opportunities in the Philippines from The Report: The Philippines 2016
With strong economic growth and rising incomes – partly driven by a leading global IT-business process outsourcing (BPO) industry – IT in the Philippines has long been a government priority. The sector has sustained double-digit growth in recent years, riding the wave of increased smartphone adoption and other mobile choices by consumers, as...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Ryan Guadalquiver, Managing Director, Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Interview from The Report: The Philippines 2016
What role can ICT integration and cloud computing play in empowering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to compete more effectively?
Articles & Analysis | Consumers and operators in the Philippines benefit from ICT structural changes from The Report: The Philippines 2016
With one of the most connected online populations in the region, the Philippines offers many areas of potential growth for telecoms companies, both in terms of selling services and devices. With the introduction of a new operator in 2016, the competition to capture market share is going to increase.