NEWS we published that Philippine Economic Zone Authority Director General Lilia de Lima announced her retirement Wednesday, a day before President Benigno Aquino 3rd stepped down and President Rody Duterte assumed office, saddened many who know that Ms. De Lima is a rare and true model of what a government official, agency manager and technocrat should be.
We had her for our roundtable guest some weeks ago (we also had her over at our office for a roundtable a year before) and we were once more impressed by her performance as head these past 21 years the PEZA performance. That performance is one of the reasons our country has been steadily enjoying gross domestic product growth for two decades and is now reputed to be the brightest economic star in Asia.
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