Begin work to lift restrictive foreign investment laws

IT’s true, as the president of Metro Bank’s First Metro Investment Corp. said yesterday, “President Rodrigo Duterte’s decisive brand of leadership can help transform the Philippine economy into a global growth leader.”

FMIC President Rabboni Francis Arjonillo also said, “With the change in government and the promise of the Duterte administration’s decisiveness and action ... the country is poised to become an emerging global frontrunner.”