{"id":30016,"date":"2014-10-30T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=30016"},"modified":"2014-10-30T19:06:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T11:06:37","slug":"ph-lands-95th-place-on-wb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/30\/ph-lands-95th-place-on-wb\/","title":{"rendered":"PH lands 95th place on WB"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16115\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Makati-buildings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16115\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Makati-buildings.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Philippines landed 95th in the World Bank\u2019s latest \u201cEase of Doing Business\u201d report, reflecting gains from last year.<\/p>\n<p>Though doing business in the country became more difficult this year following the Manila\u2019s truck ban, a change in the survey\u2019s methodology showed the country\u2019s improvement which is the highest ever reported.<\/p>\n<p>The country placed 5th among the Southeast Asian nations following Singapore, which topped the list, Malaysia (18th), Thailand (26th), and Vietnam (78th) and China (90th).<\/p>\n<p>Also in the top five this year are New Zealand, Hong Kong, Denmark and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Philippines was recognized as the most-improved country after it moved 30 points up from 108th place.<\/p>\n<p>While the country\u2019s scores remained unchanged in the \u201cGetting Electricity\u201d and \u201cEnforcing Contracts\u201d criteria in the new report, it fell in eight of the 10 criteria led by\u201cTrading Across Borders,\u201d \u201cProtecting Minority Investors\u201d and \u201cPaying Taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report probes different indicators including the number of days and steps needed to get new business permits, and the ease at which a business can be closed down, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The said World Bank survey is cited by President Aquino as among the indicators of the administration\u2019s success in running the government.<\/p>\n<p>Significant international benchmarks include the World Economic Forum\u2019s Global Competitiveness Report and Transparency International\u2019s Corruption Perception Index.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re on track and we\u2019re moving in that direction,\u201d said Guillermo Luz, the private sector co-chair of the National Competitiveness Council (NCC), whose job is to work on improving the country\u2019s rank in international surveys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Philippines landed 95th in the World Bank\u2019s latest \u201cEase of Doing Business\u201d report, reflecting gains from last &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":16115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[8406],"class_list":["post-30016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-world-bank-survey","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30016","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}