Introduced by Senator Richard J. Gordon
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The State is primarily tasked to promote entrepreneurship and create job opportunities through full and efficient use of its resources. Infrastructure assets such as the three (3) airports in Subic, Clark and Manila, two (2) seaports in Subic and Manila, and one (1) connecting highway and railway in Luzon, when integrated and optimized effectively and efficiently, and vast idle lands nearby, when utilized gainfully as Special Economic Zones to accommodate industrial, agricultural, tourism and other enterprises with the direct participation of the local government units and the private sector as collective stakeholders, could become an economic engine of growth to encourage entrepreneurship and investments and create job and business opportunities.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The State is primarily tasked to promote entrepreneurship and create job opportunities through full and efficient use of its resources. Infrastructure assets such as the three (3) airports in Subic, Clark and Manila, two (2) seaports in Subic and Manila, and one (1) connecting highway and railway in Luzon, when integrated and optimized effectively and efficiently, and vast idle lands nearby, when utilized gainfully as Special Economic Zones to accommodate industrial, agricultural, tourism and other enterprises with the direct participation of the local government units and the private sector as collective stakeholders, could become an economic engine of growth to encourage entrepreneurship and investments and create job and business opportunities.
The State must be aggressive in taking advantage of the strategic infrastructure in Subic, Clark and Manila as international transportation hubs. The development of Special Economic Zones in the municipalities nearby, bordering the highway and railway and connected to the airports and seaports in Subic, Clark and Manila must be encouraged as this will bring jobs to the people and work to the workers and promote a rising standard of living and an improved quality of life for all.
The development of these Special Economic Zones will embody a decentralized local government and private sector-led development that will display the potential that can be achieved when local people set their own priorities and initiatives. Overcrowded areas will be decongested, as industries will be dispersed to other locations in Luzon, because of the global accessibility and direct access of Subic, Clark and Manila to domestic and foreign markets worldwide by air, by land and by sea.
To fully utilize Subic, Clark and Manila as international service and logistic centers in the Asia-Pacific region, a law strengthening and expanding the powers of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority and the Clark Development Corporation, allowing them to develop other Special Economic Zones in Luzon to optimize the three (3) airports in Subic, Clark and Manila, two (2) seaports in Subic and Manila, and one (1) connecting highway and railway in Luzon, and for other purposes must be enacted to empower the local communities to chart their own destinies and ensure local growth and nationwide economic success.
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