MA. LOURDES TIQUIA
THE World Bank recently released its ease-of-doing-business annual report, titled “Doing Business 2018: Reforming Top Create Jobs.” Our rank slipped to 113th in 2017 from 99th in 2016 of a total of 190 countries covered by the yearly report. The Philippines’ distance to frontier (DTF) slightly improved to 58.74 from 58.32 in the period of the study.