This chapter contains facts for visitors, a list of recommended hotels, and a numbers listing for chambers of commerce, government offices, foreign missions and other important contacts. It also highlights suggested destinations throughout the archipelago for travelers to consider when visiting the Philippines.
This chapter gives a breakdown of the tax environment in the Philippines, examining new developments that include separate tax regimes offered in special economic zones, regulations governing transfer pricing and bookkeeping requirements. It also contains an interview with Marivic Españo, Chairperson and CEO, P&A Grant Thornton.
This chapter explores the legal framework of the Philippines, focusing on new legislation for foreign banks, legal procedures for mergers and acquisitions, and rules on data privacy and anti-money laundering, among other recent developments. It also contains an interview with Rafael A Morales, Managing Partner, SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan.
Having been the only country in South-east Asia providing just 10 years of basic education to its population, the Philippines is working to join its neighbors and implement a K-12 system in 2016. Though the administration of President Benigno Aquino III is providing the Department of Education with more funding to aid the realization of this task, the challenge of doing so over a short...
With the government committing unprecedented levels of funding to increasing the coverage of its national public health insurance programme, positive effects are being felt throughout the domestic health sector. The Philippine experiment of combining public health care spending with private sector delivery continues to evolve. As health care remains central to the public interest, there is a...
Still the country’s largest single employer, the Philippines’ agriculture sector continues to play a pivotal role in the economy, even as the government looks to develop other modern industries to lead the way in the future. Directly employing more than one-quarter of all workers in non-services industries, more than 11m Filipinos relied on agriculture for their livelihood in 2013, according...
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