Lucio Blanco Pitlo III
President of Philippine Association for Chinese Studies, and Research Fellow at Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III is President of Philippine Association for Chinese Studies and a research fellow at the Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation. He previously worked at the University of the Philippines Korea Research Centre, and lectured at the Chinese Studies Programme at Ateneo de Manila University. He was also a Board Member of the Philippine Association for China Studies.
Apr 24, 2015
The Philippines is seeing a year of impressive economic growth (at 6.3%) despite the lacking foreign direct investment due to woeful infrastructure constraints. The AIIB can be an additional source of funding for local infrastructure projects. Political disputes surrounding the China Sea disputes were not enough to trump the economic importance of this cooperation.