{"id":32337,"date":"2014-11-20T11:12:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T03:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=32337"},"modified":"2014-11-20T19:19:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T11:19:48","slug":"aquino-approves-2014-investment-priorities-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/20\/aquino-approves-2014-investment-priorities-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquino approves 2014 Investment Priorities Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10520\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/investments.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10520\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/investments-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/investments-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/investments-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/investments.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 President Aquino has approved the long-awaited 2014 Investment Priorities Plan which includes the list of eight preferred sectors eligible for fiscal and non-fiscal incentives in the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>Trade Undersecretary Adrian S. Cristobal Jr. confirmed in a text message to the Philippine Daily Inquirer that the President has already signed the IPP last month.<\/p>\n<p>He noted, however that Malaca\u00f1ang has not yet issued a public copy of the list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Office of the President will publish (the 2014 IPP) anytime now. We will present the IPP on Friday (during a public consultation),\u201d Cristobal said.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s IPP is aiming to \u201cclearly target investment opportunities and needs to fill gaps in the supply or value chain; boost sectors with latent or obvious competitive advantage; and offset market imperfections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is also eyed as a \u201ctool for industrial development and economic growth and consists of specific economic activities that\u2014based on industry studies, plans and road maps\u2014are strategic or critical to advance a particular industry or improve the product\u2019s value chain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Trade and Industry on Wednesday, the key industries included in the list are manufacturing; agribusiness and fishery; services; economic and low-coast housing; hospitals; energy; public infrastructure and logistics; and public-private partnership (PPP) projects.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the IPP contained agriculture\/agribusiness and fishery; creative industries\/knowledge-based services; shipbuilding; mass housing; iron and steel; energy; infrastructure; research and development; green projects; motor vehicles; strategic projects; hospital\/medical services; and disaster prevention, and mitigation and recovery projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 President Aquino has approved the long-awaited 2014 Investment Priorities Plan which includes the list of eight preferred sectors &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4681],"class_list":["post-32337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-investment","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32337","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=32337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}