How Competitive? How Easy to Start a Business? How Business Ready?

Difficult to gather such data on a city/municipality basis

OBJECTIVE Develop a template of standard indicators that will help LGUs: Assess competitiveness and business environment Use as a basis for reforms Strategically map out how to make cities and municipalities more competitive vis a vis ASEAN cities

Competitiveness research in other countries US COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS

Regional Innovation Initiative

EUROPEAN UNION

European Competitiveness Index

Competitiveness Research done locally.. ASIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT

Philippine City Competitiveness Reports

INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION

Sub-National Ease of Doing Business Report

 However, these earlier efforts were not sustained carried out only once every three years when grant funds were available to finance such project.

This type of report should be produced every year for comparison and analysis on an annual basis. Data collection should be institutionalized and embedded in the regular data collection so information can be religiously collected at little or no extra cost.

LIST OF REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS COMMITTEES CAR REGION 6 REGION 1 REGION 7 REGION 2 REGION 8 REGION 3 REGION 9 REGION 4A REGION 10 REGION 4B REGION 11 REGION 5 REGION 12 CARAGA Through the DTI Regional Offices RCC Chairs, DTI Regional Directors or Private Sector Chamber Presidents/Heads - Public/Private Academe & NGA Members

NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION CALOOCAN NAVOTAS LAS PINAS PARANAQUE MAKATI PASAY MALABON PASIG MANDALUYONG QUEZON CITY MANILA SAN JUAN MARIKINA TAGUIG MUNTINLUPA VALENZUELA Through the LGUs Planning Offices; and MMDA Action Officers for each LGU.

THE INDICATORS Through a series of meetings and workshops, both on a per region basis and as a larger group, we eventually decided on an initial template of competitiveness indicators which focused on

ECONOMIC DYNAMISM GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY INFRASTRUCTURE

SCOPE

The City/Municipality Competitiveness Index covers all cities in each province and at least 3 of the largest municipalities in each province
Covering period of data collected: January 31 to December 31, 2012 EXCEPT for the BPLS data which should include up to January 31, 2013

Regional Competitiveness Committees

As building block of overall competitiveness

City/Municipality Competitiveness Index

Technical Capacity Building Programs

Benchmarking of Best Practices

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