The article that has been published on Business World: Which Regions will be Getting the Biggest Slices of the Infrastructure Pie? (Posted on April 20, 2018) says that the Philippine government is fast tracking its development of infrastructure and has identified a total of 4,490 projects with total investment requirement of P 7.74 trillion. Out of this total, 4,231 projects are “region specific” with ARMM getting the most number of 1,340 projects (valued at P 63.24 billion), followed by Region II (Cagayan Valley) with 288 (valued at P 41.49 billion), Region III (Central Luzon) with 235 (valued at P 158.36 billion) , Region VIII (Eastern Visayas) with 191 (valued at P 35.16 billion) and Region V (Bicol) with 187 projects (valued at P 45.66 billion).
In terms of budget allocation, NCR (Metro Manila) will get the biggest share of infrastructure budget amounting to P 964.68 billion for 320 projects, followed by Central Luzon- P 158.36 billion for 235 projects , Davao Region – P 142.69 billion for 143 projects; Calabarzon – P118.68 billion for 168 projects; and Northern Mindanao – P86.36 billion for 183 projects. (Source: NEDA and Business World)
