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• Improve the quality of goods and services by adopting best practices and
successful business models in production processes (See also PDP Chapter
16).
• Encourage and support innovation in the country’s export-oriented
industries through investments (See also PDP Chapters 8 and 9).
• Develop human resources and improve institutional structures.
• Enhance resiliency of businesses or enterprises to disaster and climate
change impact (See also PDP Chapter 11).

Enhance trade facilitation and strengthen linkages and connectivity
• Review and implement laws, rules and regulations to reduce the cost to
exporters and importers, as well as facilitate and streamline procedures for
engaging in trade.
• Foster forward and backward linkages across sectors through the value
chain approach (See also PDP Chapter 8).
• Provide adequate infrastructure and logistical support to achieve
connectivity, ensure efficient flow of goods and services domestically and
internationally, and lower the cost of production and delivery.

Leveling the Playing Field through a

National Competition Policy

By 2022, the Philippine market will be more efficient
and competitive, where small entrepreneurs and
firms thrive besides larger players, hence allowing
consumers to have better and wider choices of goods
and services. The targets are indicated in Table 16.2 of
the PDP 2017-2022.

Strategies

The National Competition Policy (NCP) needs to be formulated and implemented
in order to achieve the sector’s expected outcomes of improving consumer welfare
and market efficiency.

The NCP aims to steer regulations and administrative procedures of government
agencies toward promoting competition, as well as to strengthen the enforcement of

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