{"id":135339,"date":"2017-11-30T22:47:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T03:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=135339"},"modified":"2025-01-13T16:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T21:20:40","slug":"peza-registers-p203-b-investments-in-jan-oct-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/30\/peza-registers-p203-b-investments-in-jan-oct-17\/","title":{"rendered":"PEZA registers P203-B investments in Jan-Oct \u201917"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_125645\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125645\" style=\"width: 349px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/349px-Philippine_Economic_Zone_Authority_PEZA.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125645\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/349px-Philippine_Economic_Zone_Authority_PEZA.svg_.png\" alt=\"These six new economic zones include five information technology (IT) parks and centers and one horizontal economic zone in Negros region. (Photo By Philippine Economic Zone Authority - http:\/\/www.peza.gov.ph\/, Public Domain\" width=\"349\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/349px-Philippine_Economic_Zone_Authority_PEZA.svg_.png 349w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/349px-Philippine_Economic_Zone_Authority_PEZA.svg_-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-125645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These six new economic zones include five information technology (IT) parks and centers and one horizontal economic zone in Negros region. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=60364427\">Photo By Philippine Economic Zone Authority &#8211; http:\/\/www.peza.gov.ph\/, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) has registered PHP203.2 billion investments in January to October 2017, up 89.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy ventolin online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/ventolin.html\">http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/ventolin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>3 percent from PHP107.3 billion in the same period in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>PEZA Director General Charito Plaza said the number of projects, job generation, and export revenues in economic zones for the period also increased.<\/p>\n<p>Projects approved by PEZA in the first 10 months of the year slightly grew by 0.62 percent to 484 from 481 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Employment in PEZA zones went up 4.47 percent to 1.38 million in January to October 2017 from 1.32 million in the same period in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Export revenues of PEZA-registered firms likewise improved 9.7 percent to USD38 billion this year from USD34.6 billion in the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Investment in economic zone development reached PHP125.8 billion, almost doubled the PHP65.2 billion approved in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Growth in manufacturing investments was faster at 98 percent amounting to PHP45.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy abilify online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/abilify.html\">http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/abilify.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>6 billion in January to October 2017 from PHP23.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy metformin online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/metformin.html\">http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/metformin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>5 billion last year.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, investments in information technology sector slowed down to PHP14.4 billion, down 8.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Plaza said in a chance interview that investment pledges in PEZA are seen to further increase towards the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>She said PEZA has been aggressive in promoting the Philippines as investment destination both to foreign and local companies.<\/p>\n<p>She added that PEZA also invites local government units to convert idle lands into economic zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) has registered PHP203.2 billion investments in January to October 2017, up 89. buy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":125645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[13369,13368],"class_list":["post-135339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-charito-plaza","tag-philippine-economic-zone-authority","mauthors-kris-crismundo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283699,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135339\/revisions\/283699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}