{"id":20823,"date":"2017-09-07T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=20823"},"modified":"2017-09-07T16:39:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T08:39:22","slug":"ph-is-8th-best-country-to-start-a-business-13th-best-country-to-invest-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/09\/07\/ph-is-8th-best-country-to-start-a-business-13th-best-country-to-invest-in\/","title":{"rendered":"PH is 8th best country to start a business, 13th best country to invest in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a report released by American media company U.S. News &amp; World Report, Philippines ranked 43<sup>rd<\/sup> overall in the list of \u2018best countries in the world.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20824\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/1-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"852\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Out of 80 countries, PH got an overall score of 2.1 making it to #43, compared to its previous #33 rank out of 60 countries in 2016. Factors such as adventure (pleasant climate), citizenship (cares about human rights\/environment and freedom), cultural influence (cultural significance), entrepreneurship (tech expertise, skilled labor force), heritage (culturally accessible), movers (different\/dynamic), open for business (favorable tax environment, government transparency), power (economically influential), and quality of life (good job market, economic stability) were assessed to get the performance score of each countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20825\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/IMG_9745-wm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/IMG_9745-wm.jpg 850w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/IMG_9745-wm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/IMG_9745-wm-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PH ranked 8<sup>th<\/sup> in the best countries to start a business, where more than 6,000 business decision-makers scored in attributes such as affordability, bureaucracy, cheap manufacturing costs, connection to the rest of the world, and easy access to capital.<\/p>\n<p>The country ranked 13<sup>th<\/sup> in terms of the best countries to invest in, based on their scores in 8 attributes namely skilled labor force and technological expertise, favorable tax environment, innovation, entrepreneurship, corruption, dynamic, and economic stability.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-countries\/philippines\">USNews.com<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PH also ranked #43 in the overall rank of best countries in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-20823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-philippines"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/1-5-e1504766587610.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20829,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions\/20829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}