Baguio improves competitiveness standing in 2021

Baguio City improved its ranking in the 8th Annual Regional Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI) by placing 17th as overall most competitive local government unit under the highly urbanized city category for 2021.

The latest rank was an improvement from the city’s showings in the previous years of 19th in 2020, 18th in 2019 and 21st in 2018 in the annual Cities and Municipalities Local Economic Development Competitiveness Survey  by the National Competitiveness Council (NCC).

For 2021, the city placed third under the Most Improved, 9th under the economic dynamism pillar, 19th in government efficiency, 24th in infrastructure and 14th in resiliency. 

In 2020, the city was 19th Most Improved, 11th in economic dynamism, 26th in government efficiency, 18th in infrastructure and 26th in resiliency.

The city along with the other most competitive local government units (LGUs) for 2020 and 2021 in the region were recognized by the Department of Trade and Industry Cordillera Administrative Region (DTI-CAR) and the Regional Competitiveness Committee during the 7th and 8th Annual Regional Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI) Recognition Ceremony held online last February 17.

Mayor Benjamin Magalong attributed the city’s impressive ranking to the concerted efforts of the government and the private sectors and the active participation of the community.The DTI-CAR said the CMCI annual ranking “measures how competitive the cities and municipalities are and ranks them based on the list of competitiveness indicators on the four pillars of economic dynamism, government efficiency, infrastructure, and resiliency geared towards sustainable competitiveness. The fifth pillar of innovation was added recently.”  – Aileen P. Refuerzo