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                    [Title] => Purisima complains to WB chief over 'erratic' Doing Business report
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The Philippines escalated its complaints on the annual Doing Business report ranking to the highest official of the World Bank Group.

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The National Competitiveness Council (NCC) is set to launch a new Doing Business game plan this year to sustain gains in competitiveness rankings and attain the target of top third quartile by 2016.

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We are supposed to get today the final numbers on our economic performance for 2012. The President, no less, advised us to fasten our seatbelts and prepare to be impressed.

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There could be a context for the obsessive verbal attacks mounted against the usual suspects by the President while he was abroad last week.

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The most recent SWS survey showed President Aquino II’s approval ratings drop substantially.

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That might not seem readily evident, especially when driving past crumbling palaces and through the dusty backroads of India’s northwest.

That is certainly not evident trekking uphill through an impoverished village to get to the Namreena Fort Palace Hotel, an old fortress guarding the pass into Rajastan. But inside the Fort, there is opulence and elegance invisible from the outside.
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                    [Title] => Purisima complains to WB chief over 'erratic' Doing Business report
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The Philippines escalated its complaints on the annual Doing Business report ranking to the highest official of the World Bank Group.

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The National Competitiveness Council (NCC) is set to launch a new Doing Business game plan this year to sustain gains in competitiveness rankings and attain the target of top third quartile by 2016.

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We are supposed to get today the final numbers on our economic performance for 2012. The President, no less, advised us to fasten our seatbelts and prepare to be impressed.

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There could be a context for the obsessive verbal attacks mounted against the usual suspects by the President while he was abroad last week.

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The most recent SWS survey showed President Aquino II’s approval ratings drop substantially.

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That might not seem readily evident, especially when driving past crumbling palaces and through the dusty backroads of India’s northwest.

That is certainly not evident trekking uphill through an impoverished village to get to the Namreena Fort Palace Hotel, an old fortress guarding the pass into Rajastan. But inside the Fort, there is opulence and elegance invisible from the outside.
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