Francis Arthur A.

Corpuz
Julian Paolo Gerolaga
Janneal Karlo Y. Palqueza

ECONOMIC

TECHNOLOGICAL

Elyssa Carmella P. Palomo

John Gabriel D. Palanog

GROUP 3

Strengths

Weaknesses

Opportunities

Threats

In 2011, Philippines GDP

per capita is 1410.78
and is equivalent to 11%
of the worlds average.
The Philippines GDP per
capita averaged 919.15
USD from 1960 until
2011. And has reached
an all-time high of
1410.78 USD in
December 2011.
Philippines has also the
40th largest economy,
thus granting the title:
Tiger Economy of Asia.

Poverty in the
Philippines as of June
2012 stood at 27.9%

2015 Millennium
Development Goal on
poverty reduction.
Halve the poverty rate
Economy can grow
from 6.5 7.5% this
year to 7-8% in 2015

MyPhone, the first

Filipino mobile phone
brand to offer dual SIM
mobility was established
in September 2007 by a
group of friends led by a
modern day David Mr.
David Lim who dared
to battle established
international giants (or
Goliaths) in the industry.

Filipino-made
technology has been
frankly of low quality
compared to high-end
brands in the leading
market (Compare
Vodafone to Samsung,
Apple, or Nokia). Also,
Filipino technology
was branded as a
cheap copy and a ripoff of large
international
companies products.
Lastly, other existing
international brands
have been competing
in the capitalist
Philippine market by
lowering their prices.

January March
2012 = unemployed
Filipino rose from
2.89M 3.09M
NSO 37.8M
Filipinos have jobs
(during the
conduction of their
survey) 57.5% of
them (equivalent to
21.8M) fell under
wage and salary
earners, and the
rest were either
unpaid family
workers, selfemployed, or
employers in their
own farms or
business .
There is an existing
stigma among the
Filipinos that any
product fully and
originally made in
the Philippines is of
low quality that may
soon end the
innovation of
technology in the
Philippines.

6.75 pints crashed in

the PSE biggest drop
happened in 2008
Floods that caused
some foreign
investments to backout that made the
economy fell by 8.5%
this years 1st quarter.

In time, the Philippines

and its advancement
to technology will help
them solve some of the
leading problems that
the country is facing.

POLITICAL

SOCIO-CULTURAL

We have a democratic
government. It is a
constitutional republic
with presidential
system. It is governed by
a unitary state. The
strengths of being a
democratic government
are that the will of
people is instituted and
there is more freedom
of action unlike other
types of government.
The Filipinos are fairly
helpful people; even the
age of iPods and dotcoms has not erased
their strong affinity for
one another. The virtue
of bayanihan lives on.
Bayanihan is based on
an age-old practice to
help a neighbor move
his house by literally
carrying it over ones
(and several others')
shoulders. This is now
often used to describe a
feeling of brotherhood
or solidarity among a
close circle or group. For
example, the spirit of
bayanihan can be seen
when one supports his
neighbor who is fixing
his house after a storm.
In offices, this is seen
nowadays when
workers and staff share
their lunch packs among
themselves

The majority can

trample the rights of
minority and law
making can be slow
because there are
many sources and this
kind of government
system can be
unstable.

Example of political
opportunity here in the
Philippines is during
the Marcos regime
where he is ousted and
a simple house wife
rose to replace him in
his position. It means
that it is easy here in
the Philippines to be
part of the political
system.

There are many

political threats in
the Philippines.
Examples are
Political dynasties
and Revolutionaries
which threatens the
stability of the
government.

Passivity and Lack of

Initiative. Filipinos are
generally passive and
lacking in initiative.
One waits to be told
what has to be done.
There is a strong
reliance on others,
e.g., leaders and
government, to do
things for us. This is
related to the attitude
towards authority.
Filipinos have a need
for a strong authority
figure and feel safer
and more secure in
the presence of such
an authority. One is
generally submissive
to those in authority,
and is not likely to
raise issues or to
question decisions.

Trade between Manila

and Ottawa has grown
steadily. The
Philippines is Canadas
largest agriculturalfood export market in
Southeast Asia. The
Canadian International
Development Agency
works actively in the
far-flung communities
with local governments
and nongovernmental
organizations, in the
areas of agricultural
cooperatives, local
governance and smallbusiness development.
More than 60 percent
of the Canadian
International
Development Agencys
resources targets strifetorn Mindanao to help
restore peace and
rebuild lives and
properties.

many Filipinos have

gone abroad in
search of greener
pastures. Many of
them have moved
to different parts of
the world to work as
overseas contract
workers. As of 2004,
there are 3.6 million
Filipinos who are
working abroad as
contract workers.
Most of them are
working as
industrial and
service workers in
the Middle East. The
rest are working as
domestic helpers in
Hong Kong, English
teachers in the
Spanish-speaking
regions of the US,
nurses in Great
Britain, NGO
workers in
Cambodia,
entertainers in
Japan, and Catholic
missionaries in
Africa, among
others.