Philippines in GVCs

USAID, through the STRIDE and USAID Advancing Philippine Competitiveness Project (COMPETE) financed a research project with Duke GVCC to support the Philippines new industry development policies. The Philippine Board of Investments (BOI), the industry development and investment promotion arm of the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) was our local partner. I was in the Philippines four times: November 2015 and January 2016 (electronics & auto interviews), February 2017 (Manila and Cebu for 10 shipbuilding interviews) and July 2017 (Manila-final presentation). I analyzed three proprietary firm-level datasets within the scope of the project: Customs data – imports & exports (2007-2014), DTI-BOI firm registrations (1974-2015), and PEZA firm and activity registration (1974-2015).