State-approved foreign investment pledges plunged by double digits in the second quarter of 2020 after six investment promotion agencies (IPAs) recorded contractions, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

Data from the statistics agency showed on Thursday that these IPAs only approved P15.5 billion in foreign pledges from April to June, down 68.8 percent from P49.6 billion in 2019.

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