AIM study commends Las Piñas

The Asian Institute of Management (AIM) revealed that Las Piñas City has the fastest and efficient way of issuing business permits to local and foreign investors among the 11 metro cities in the country as a result of the study they conducted with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

Roberto Galang, associate director of the AIM policy center, pointed this out during an interview recently with DTI Secretary Mar Roxas on the latter’s radio program "One-on-One with Mar Roxas" on DZRH.

The observation was a result of the survey conducted by AIM and DTI for the Philippine Cities Competititivess Ranking Project 2002 among 11 cities in the Metro Cities category comprising Metro Manila, Metro Cebu and Metro Davao.

Last year, the DILG-Local Government Academy also conferred on Las Piñas the title Model City on Streamlining Regulatory Systems to Cut Red Tape in Local Government Transactions in the National Capital Region.