Sun.Star Economic Forum

Despite accounting for just 4.4 percent of the country’s population, the province of Cebu generates 10 percent of national exports and receives 15 percent of all foreign tourists who visit the Philippines.

The province also trumps Subic and Clark when it comes to investments.

This was revealed by Sandra Manuel, officer-in-charge of the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) 7, during yesterday’s Sun.Star Economic Forum 2005 at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino.

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By Wilson Ng

I am currently attending the Sun.Star Economic Forum as I write this and I would particularly want to just share some of the figures that impressed me. At any rate, I am sure the other facts are more than adequately covered by my other colleagues in Sun.Star.

Two sets of statistics stand out quite well—one on tourism, the other on trade.

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Sun.Star Economic Forum starts

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Sun.Star Economic Forum will be held tomorrow at Waterfront Hotel in Cebu City