PHILIPPINES SLIPS IN GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING, DROPS TO 6TH SPOT IN ASEAN AND 64TH GLOBALLY
The Philippines slid 8 places to 64th out of 141 countries, from last year’s 56th spot in the 2019 Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum. This was due to its global competitiveness score dropping by 0.3, from 62.1 to 61.9 this year while other countries improved their scores. It also dropped to 6th from 5th among nine covered ASEAN countries due to the significant improvement in the scores of Brunei.