Universal News (AFA Press partner) publishes special report on The Philippines

One of the teams of Universal News moved to The Philippines for several months, in order to gather the right information and offer the proper image of the country’s economy and business arenas. As a result, the final country report was distributed with Foreign Policy on Thursday, December 1, 2011, as well as published at Worldfolio, where it can be read online. The team focused on on-site data and information gathering as well as on interviewing this post relevant personalities and stakeholders in the country. Universal News is one of AFA Press partner agencies.

Among the personalities in the report, the words of President Benigno Aquino III have special value. According to the president, the country is ready for any challenge, after having renewed its confidence in its economy, its government and itself. One of the main points of the Philippine economical agenda during the last years was to ease the private companies’ creation and development. But probably the most relevant actions in the country were taking to face corruption. As a summary, according to President Aquino, The Philippines “have streamlined business registration, improved power supply, instituted reforms and issued policies to fight corruption, and established closer coordination between the national and local governments.”