National Competitiveness Council (Philippines)

National Competitiveness Council

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Abbreviation NCC
Formation October 5, 2006
Location
Chairperson
 Ramon M. Lopez, DTI
Co-Chairperson
 Guillermo Luz (MBC, AC)
Website competitive.org.ph

The National Competitiveness Council is a public-private sector organization in the Philippines with a mandate to promote and develop national competitiveness strategies and push for the implementation of the Action Agenda of Competitiveness and link it to the Philippine Development Plan.[1]

Composition

The Private Sector Co-Chairperson is appointed by the President for a term of 2 years and is eligible to be re-appointed for 1 additional term. The five private sector representatives shall likewise be appointed by the President with a term of 2 years.

The Executive Director of the Department of Trade and Industry - Center for Industrial Competitiveness serves as the NCC Secretariat. The ED is assisted by a nominee from the private sector staff who serves as the Operations Director.

Focus Areas

The NCC is directed to measure performance and provide recommendations on the following:

Each area is handled by Working Groups with members coming from government agencies and offices as well as foreign and local chambers of commerce and various industry associations.

Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index

Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index is an annual ranking of Philippine cities and municipalities based on local competitiveness framework developed by Michael Porter, which is being used in a number of global surveys on competitiveness.[2]

Most competitive local government unit (LGU) is awarded based on the following indicators or measurements:

Economic dynamism

It is associated with activities that create stable expansion of business and industries and higher employment. This is the concrete representation of productivity as it matches the output of the local economy with local resources.

Government efficiency

This refers to the quality and reliability of government services and government support for effective and sustainable productive expansion.

The Department of Interior and Local Government used to measure the local government's score on transparency and economic governance through the Local Governance Performance Management System (LGPMS).

Infrastructure

It refers to the physical building blocks that connect, expand, and sustain a locality and its surroundings to enable the provision of goods and services. It involves basic inputs of production such as energy, water; interconnection of production such as transportation, roads, and communications; sustenance of production such as waste, disaster preparedness, environmental sustainability and human capital formation infrastructure.

Philippines Business Registry

As one of the key projects of the NCC, the Philippines Business Registry (PBR) is a government-initiated project that facilitates business registration-related transactions by integrating all agencies involved in business registration. It aims to provide a faster process for business registration, strengthening the government’s effort of providing quality service to the people and to curb corruption by reducing red tape in the bureaucracy.[3]

These include:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 44 AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 571 (S. 2006) RENAMING THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE SECTOR TASK FORCE ON PHILIPPINE COMPETITIVENESS AS THE NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL (NCC) AND EXPANDING ITS MEMBERSHIP". Republic of the Philippines. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "CITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES COMPETITIVENESS INDEX". Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "The Philippine Business Registry - The PBR". www.business.gov.ph. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
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