BPO started by Erap administration, not GMA 02/06/2010

BPO started by Erap administration, not GMA 02/06/2010 Reacting to the crowing of President Arroyo on her claimed legacy of the reported P7-billion business process outsourcing (BPO) industry which she said she had “built from scratch” and which is the major key for the Philippines to finally join the ranks of developed countries, former President Joseph Estrada’s spokesman, Margaux Salcedo yesterday, pointed out that the Arroyo administration did not build the BPO industry from scratch. The Estrada administration, she stressed, started this industry sector. “The Arroyo administration did not build the BPO industry from scratch. The BPO industry was started by the Erap administration,” Salcedo said yesterday in reaction the Arroyo claim. “The BPO Industry had its beginnings when former President Joseph Estrada directed the Department of Trade and Industry in 1999 to expand the existing Economic Zones to include IT or Information Technology related businesses,” Salcedo clarified..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/headlines/20100206hed4.html

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