Loida Nicolas Lewis, Chair - Commission on Filipinos Overseas

Loida Nicolas Lewis, Chair
Congratulations
to Sec. Imelda Nicolas
and the Commission on Filipinos
Overseas (CFO) Secretariat!
The whole essence of
“Diaspora To Development” is
how best to help the Philippines
and our kababayan.
INDEX RANKING OF NATIONS:
130. NIGERIA (2.5) • 139. PAKISTAN (2.4) • 139. PHILIPPINES (2.4) • 168. IRAN (1.8) • 176. SUDAN (1.5) • 179. AFGHANISTAN (1.3) • 180. SOMALIA (1.1)
Rank: 139
INDEX RANKING OF NATIONS 2014:
85. PHILIPPINES (38) • 126. PAKISTAN (29) • 136. NIGERIA (27) • 136. IRAN (27) • 172. AFGHANISTAN (12) • 173. SUDAN (11) • 175. SOMALIA (8)
World countries by Standard & Poor’s Foreign Rating in August 2014
PHILIPPINES’ GDP 2010 - 2014
(in Billions of US Dollars)
280
210
250.18
180.00
272.02
199.59
140
70
0
2010
Source: TradingEconomics.com
2011
2012
2014
PHILIPPINE INFLATION RATE
Annual Change on Consumer Price Index
5
4.90
4.50
4.20 4.10
3.75
3.90
4.40
4.90
4.40
4.10
4.30
3.70
2.70
2.5
1.25
0
Jan/14
Mar/14
Source: TradingEconomics.com
Jun/14
Aug/14
Oct/14
Dec/14
More Infrastructure and Progress
Coming Soon:
Bicol International Airport
Less children go to sleep hungry
Participants of 4P Family Development Seminar in GNWOM, San Juan City
The bureaucracy is beginning to work
without “cash-sunduan” or padulas.
6 years ago, we would have sworn
it would never happen.
But it is happening
in our Philippines, finally.
President Benigno Simeon Aquino III
15th President of the Republic of the Philippines
“The LORD will make you the head,
not the tail. If you pay attention
to the commands of the LORD your God
that I give you this day and carefully
follow them, you will always be at the top,
never at the bottom.”
(Deuteronomy 28:13)
It is then time
for the Philippines
to take its place
as a head nation
arising in the family of nations!
Loida Nicolas Lewis, Chair