DAVAO CITY
June 21 (PIA)- More than 300 business leaders from across the country are in
Davao City for a two-day conference dubbed as Sulong Pilipinas: Hakbang Tungong
Kaunlaran.
Business
tycoons, regional business leaders, incoming cabinet secretaries attended the
event held at the SMX Lanang. The event started yesterday (June 20) and will
culminate today.
A business
workshop was conducted in the first day it aims to gather recommendations from
the attending businessmen regarding the 10 point agenda of the incoming
President.
Sulong Pilipinas was initiated and spearheaded by the incoming
President’s economic team.
The 10-point
agenda of incoming President Duterte
delves into continuing present macroeconomic policies with reforms
particularly in revenue generation, accelerating infrastructure spending,
attracting foreign direct investments, pursuit
of genuine agricultural strategy, addressing bottlenecks in land
administration and management, strengthen basic education, a progressive tax
income system, expanding the conditional-cash transfer program, promoting
science and technology and the creative arts, strengthening the Responsible
Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law.
George
Barcelon, president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industries cited
the event as a way of thinking-out-of-the box, to move forward in achieving
inclusive growth.
Vicente Lao
of the Mindanao Business Council said that never in the political history of
the country has there been an administration that starts with a consultation
until now.
Incoming
Secretary of Finance Carlos Dominguez said that businessmen should build
coalitions of reform which aims to benefit not just the oligarchs but also the
whole community. He stressed the need for good governance not just in the public
sector but also for the private sector. (PIA/RG Alama)
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