Larger countries curious about PH growth story – business leaders

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Larger countries curious about PH growth story – business leaders

Franz Lopez

For the second time in 19 years, the Philippines hosts leaders from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies. Between then and now, the Philippine economy has become about 3 times larger, taking advantage of the freer markets around the region. Members of Manila’s APEC Business Advisory Council sat down with Rappler to talk about what the country hopes to gain from hosting APEC 2015 in the next several days. For one, they say, the eagerness of booming economies to open up their markets to developing countries, like the Philippines, is somehow linked to the country’s major growth drivers – remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and the burgeoning business process outsourcing (BPO) industry.

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