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By Luis Leoncio  Get more professionals and fewer politicians. 

By Jerry Maglunog  A top official of one of the country’s biggest banks has urged the incoming Duterte administration to scrap its predecessor’s failed public-private partnership (PPP) program and start building much-needed infrastructure on its own, using its own funds. 

By Luis Leoncio As the Senate ended its probe last week into the money-laundering case involving the $81 million that hackers stole from Bangladesh Bank (BB), the central bank of that country, Bangladesh officials kept up their demands for the return of the money. 

From bad to good to better seems to best describe the business sector’s perception of presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte as he continues to announce controversial policy plans that include the integration of communist rebels into his Cabinet. 

The eight-point economic agenda presented by the camp of presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte, and the names of the personalities who would be part of his Cabinet, appear to have quickly soothed anxieties in the business sector. 

Credit-rating firms are keeping a wait-and-see attitude on the administration of presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte, the tough-talking former Davao City mayor whose lead over his rivals in the last presidential election appears to have become insurmountable. Although the official results have yet to be announced, all of his rivals, with the exception of Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, have conceded defeat But …

By Riza Lozada  Presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte will receive full cooperation from the business sector in his programs addressing poverty alleviation, high unemployment, inadequate infrastructure and preparedness on risks and disasters, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), the country’s biggest trade group, said. 

By Luis Leoncio Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the key drivers of growth among economies of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) members, but experts say these remain one of the region’s untapped resources. 

By Luis Leoncio  Reforms in the country’s tax rates, considered one of the highest in the region, and the tax system itself, and a final, vigorous push for the long-shelved efforts to relax constitutional limits on foreign ownership are on top of the final wish list that the business sector has come up with for the successor of President Aquino.

By Luis Leoncio  As the Aquino administration draws to a close, more details are being revealed about the supposed reforms initiated under his term, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) attributing the improvement in fiscal management to measures undertaken during the term of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.