Pacific Strategies & Assessments, a leading Asia-based business risk consultancy, produces a weekly report for its clients in the Philippines. Its reports stand out for their intelligent, informed and candid assessment of Philippine business and politics. PSA, which operates in Manila and other key Asian cities, provides business intelligence, investigations, public affairs, security, and crisis management services.
In its report this week, PSA takes a look at these issues:
1) the “state of decay” at Napocor
2) the similarities betwen Fidel V. Ramos’s Pirma initiative and Arroyo’s Charter-change campaign
3) the whitewashing of the Mayuga report
4) how the government is scaring off investors
5) how the strengthening peso is actually bad for many Filipino businesses
6) the Philippine tourism boom