Manila, Philippines, 23 August 2024 — The Department of Trade and Industry culminates the Creative Cities and Municipalities Congress (CCMC) with the highly anticipated Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI) awarding ceremony, held at the Fiesta Pavilion of The Manila Hotel. The event recognizes the outstanding achievements of local government units (LGUs) across the country...
Read MoreRankings of Cities and Municipalities are based on the sum of their scores on 5 Pillars: Economic Dynamism, Government Efficiency, Infrastructure, Resiliency, and Innovation. Provincial rankings are based on population and income weighted average of the Overall scores of cities and municipalities under a province.
Learn how to navigate the Data Analytics Platform of the Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI) with Undersecretary Rafaelita M. Aldaba of the DTI – Competitiveness and Innovation Group (CIG).
Rankings Data Portal Heat MapCMCI is an annual ranking of Philippine cities and municipalities developed by the National Competitiveness Council through the Regional Competitiveness Committees (RCCs) with the assistance of the United States Agency for International Development.
Read More MethodologyBuilding local competitiveness is critical to enhancing long-term national competitiveness. In pursuit of this goal, the National Competitiveness Council encouraged the creation of Regional Competitiveness Committees (RCCs) across the Philippines. Each RCC is composed of members from the public sector, private sector and academe. It should have one chairman from the public sector and a co-chairman from the private sector.
Read MoreHere are our Top 2 winners for the 2023 CMCI Academic Symposiums.
Macatol, Roniel M.
Kathleen Irah B. Magaliao
Existing competitiveness indicator systems were used as guidelines in forming the framework behind the Index. Four convergent pillars were found among the most common key indicator areas:
Creates stable expansion of businesses and industries and higher employment. The pillar matches the output and productivity of the local economy with...
Refers to the quality and reliability of government services and government support for effective and sustainable productive expansion.
Read morePertains to the physical assets that connect, expand, and sustain a locality and its surroundings to enable the provision of goods and services.
Read moreApplies to the capacity of a locality to build systems that can absorb change and disturbance and being able to adapt to such changes.
Refers to the ability of a locality to harness its creative potential to improve or sustain current levels of productivity.