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The Philippines slipped 10 notches lower to 96th from 86th in the 2020 global e-commerce readiness index, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reported. The UNCTAD Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-commerce Index 2020 where Switzerland climbed to the top spot replacing...

Foreign direct investments (FDI) in the Philippines rose by 29 percent to $6.4 billion 2020, bucking the overall hefty contraction in southeast Asian countries, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In  its 38th Global Investment Trends Monitor, UNCTAD...

Global maritime trade is expected to plunge by 4.1 percent in 2020 due to the unprecedented disruption caused by COVID-19 that also transformed the industry and associated supply chain, UNCTAD said in its Review of Maritime Transport 2020 . The report also warned that new waves of the pandemic that...

 Foreign direct investments (FDIs) in South East Asia in the first semester of 2020 contracted by 20 percent, but the Philippines is one of only two exceptions that bucked the investment trend with its FDI inflows rising 20 percent, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)...