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This section is at the heart of the services we offer online to our members. The online resources section contains a wealth of information - research and background resources that you and your staff can use to save time and effort!

Information Papers

Information papers are general-purpose documents that provide advice to members with regard to specific topics or aspects of forum programs or membership as well as the benefits that they enjoy.

A number of these documents are in the nature of "how to use" specific resources provided by the Forum as well as periodic indexes to articles and reports published by the forum.

The Philippine Business Leaders Brief Online

The Philippine Business Leaders Brief is compiled by a team of professional analysts and is designed to provide an informed international perspective on recent events in the Philippines and across the Asian region that may impact on local and foreign business operations. Items are selected for inclusion on the basis of their perceived relevance to the business community. From the main page you may view this week's headline news and access the latest articles sent to members.

From this area of the site you can access the latest articles published in the Leaders Brief.

Alternatively you may wish to access the report archives and download specific reports that may be missing from your collection.

Asia Business Leaders Brief Online

The Asia Business Leaders Brief provides an informed international perspective on recent events across the Asian region that may impact on local and foreign business operations. Items are selected for inclusion on the basis of their perceived relevance to the business community.

From this page you may access past issues of the Asia Brief. Alternatively you may use the Article Search to find specific articles dealing with a country and/or topic.

Philippine Business Guide

The Philippines Business Guide provides a benchmark for people new to the Philippines and who wish to have basic information at their fingertips as to how to approach living, working or trading in the country. The original guide was published in late 2002 and the electronic version was updated in mid 2003. A major revision is scheduled for late 2004 with a new print and electronic version (CD) due out at the end of the year.

Outlook Papers

The secretariat publishes regular outlook papers on the Philippines dealing with the macro-economy and the political situation. Our advisory board as well as individual members also contribute papers that can be found in this section.

Executive Briefs

Executive briefs come in a number of forms. Often they are papers ("special reports") prepared by our own research staff dealing with specific political or economic issues or sector reviews. Often such reports are prepared in association with our meeting program. Our archive of such reports now extends back more than 3 years providing members not only with current information but also with a historical picture of how events and issues have unfolded in recent times.

Another set of executive briefs provide commentaries and insights on the current situation in the Philippines written either by the secretariat or submitted by members.

Corporate Insights provide members with an informed perspective on how other executives and their companies have approached the Philippines and their business. From these, and over time, we will be able to distill a set of best practice guidelines that will assist members of the peer group forum share ideas relating to management and corporate governance.

Presentations

You do not come to Forum meetings to listen to us; but rather to hear the views and opinions of our guest speakers and panelists. Nevertheless we provide a range of presentational material, some of which is well-known to "early birds" - those who show up early for breakfast and can view the slide presentation running over breakfast. We also maintain a master presentation that is updated periodically. All of these presentations can be downloaded from the website for later viewing and for use with your own clients or staff. When our speakers provide their presentations to us, these are also added to the library with their permission.

All presentations are downloadable as PowerPoint presentations (PPS files).

Key Indicators

Our research staff and data processing team maintains more than 700 spreadsheets related to Philippines social and economic indicators. All of these are available online in both chart form as well as Excel worksheets. Our updating program goes through a periodic cycle. However, members may request updating or extension of statistical data from the secretariat.

Goodies

Life is not all work! Sometimes we have things to share with our members that are strictly for fun. Mostly (at the moment) this is in the form of digital photo images that some of our members like to use as screen savers as well as photo albums from our various meetings. As and when we find suitable material, this will be posted in the "Goodies" section of our website. One member we suggested we also post after-dinner jokes but so far the best ones we have seen (judged by the chuckle factor) are not really suitable and we will leave these to be circulated privately!

Corporate Search

Search out more than 10,000 local businesses and organisations through our online database. Members may use their password to amend and update their own corporate record. Our webmaster will provide details as to how this facility can be used.

Useful Links

This final section provides links to other websites that our research staff consult on a regular basis should you find the need to search further for information on the Philippines.