Investment approvals surged by 40.1 percent in the first five months of 2019 on the back of growing local pledges, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) reported on Tuesday.

In a statement, the department’s Board of Investments (BoI) said these investment pledges amounted to P290.6 billion, compared with P207.5 billion in January to May last year.

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