The Philippines may have slipped in the latest ease of doing business rankings but the government is keeping to a target of hitting the top 20 percent by 2020, a Cabinet official said.

“That will still be the target. To be [in] the top 20 percent to be more realistic. At least before the end of the Duterte administration we should be hitting that number,” Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez told reporters on Thursday.

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