President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo challenged the business community today to take a bigger stake in the country’s future by investing domestically and taking advantage of the high volume of remittances of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) which have contributed greatly to the economic growth.
In a speech at the Special Joint Meeting of Rotary Clubs of Rotary International District 3830 this noon at the Grand Ballroom of Hotel Intercontinental Manila, the President told the businessmen that now is the right time to expand and invest as interest rates are at an all-time low and capital inputs and raw materials are cheap because of the strong peso.
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