“We can compete with the world,” Ruy Moreno, private sector director for operations of the National Competitiveness Council, said at the NCC Roadshow in Bacolod City yesterday.

NCC’s model roadmaps for local government units with focus on four sunrise industries: tourism (including health and wellness), IT/BPO, agribusiness and mining, were among the roadshow’s highlights.

“The public sector must provide policies that would allow the private sector to spread its reach and its productivity while the private sector keeps the continuity of the partnership,” Moreno said.

“Some of the companies are evaluating the status of their corporation to guide them whether their investment will satisfy their goals,” he said.

But for the Philippines to stay in the market, it must not compromise the quality of its product. It must also attract investors to create a high purchasing power, Moreno said.

He said the Philippines has its full force of human resources and its natural resources and “all we need to do is to take an extra mile to mobilize what we have.” This means that employment plus business equates to money, he said.*LTG

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