The Philippines needs to reform its tax policy and administration to generate the kind of revenue required to remedy its decades-old investment deficit in infrastructure, health and education, a senior economist said in the recent report released by the World Bank.

Economists and recent financial reviews on the Philippines have often referred to the country’s underinvestment in infrastructure as a major reason for the weak inflow of direct investment from China and the west.

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