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Demand for housing and office space in the Philippines is expected to remain high on the back of impressive economic growth. Despite an increase in new space, property developers expect vacancies in premium residential and office space across business districts to remain scarce. According to Colliers International, demand is so high that even with...

Exhibiting nominal growth rates of approximately 20% every year, business process outsourcing (BPO) is the Philippines’ most successful major sector. While accounting for only about 2% of national employment in 2012, the sector still makes an oversized contribution to the country’s GDP and especially to growth, both directly and indirectly as it...

With its rising incomes and population of 1.3bn, China represents a vast potential source market for the tourism sector. As the nearest tropical country to China’s major population centres, the Philippines is an obvious vacation destination for the emerging Chinese middle class in search of adventure.

Philippine developers are using shopping malls as flagships and anchors for large mixed-use developments called “townships”. The trend has been a major driver of the construction boom behind the recent acceleration of the country’s GDP growth.

Americans may be sharply divided over the merits of US President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), but the Philippine BPO sector is happily gearing up for the extra outsourcing business that US health care reforms are expected to send its way. The ACA, better known as Obamacare, aims to create a virtually universal health insurance...

An extraordinary construction boom is transforming the skyline of the national capital, Manila, as well as other provincial cities. What were once rundown neighbourhoods have become chic, and abandoned former US military bases have been transformed into new business districts, catering mainly to the fast-growing outsourcing sector. Work on highways...