2017 Competitiveness Index: Batangas First, Lipa Third in Batangas Province

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The City of Batangas took over from Tanauan City as the most competitive city in Batangas Province according to the 2017 Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index released last month by the National Competitiveness Council. Lipa City is ranked third, as it was last year.

The rankings of this article are taken from the aggregated data on all the country’s cities, regardless of classification, i.e. highly urbanized or component city. The lowest rank is 145.

This year’s index features the inclusion of a new pillar, that of resilience, which according to the Department of Trade and Industries web site “embodies the capacities of the LGUs to continuously function, so that the people living and working in that specific community, particularly the poor and vulnerable, survive and thrive no matter what disasters they will encounter.”

In previous years’ surveys, there were only three pillars that were measured: economic dynamism, government efficiency and infrastructure.

ECONOMIC DYNAMISM

Batangas, presently ranked 17^th nationwide, continues to be the province’s most economically dynamic city, as it was in the 2016 survey. Lipa took over from Tanauan at second, and is behind Batangas City by a mere .0965. All the province’s three cities are impressively ranked inside the Top 50 nationwide as far as Economic Dynamism is concerned. However, all three cities scored far lower than they did last year.

Economic Dynamism
	National Rank	Score
Batangas City	17	5.5965
Lipa City	23	5.5089
Tanauan City	49	4.6184

GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY

Tanauan City has the most efficient local government among the three cities of Batangas and is ranked an impressive 26^th nationwide. Batangas City is 60 places down at 86 while Lipa City is a notch further down at 87. All three cities had better scores in this pillar last year.

Government Efficiency
	National Rank	Score
Tanauan City	26	11.9032
Batangas City	86	10.5322
Lipa City	87	10.4936

INFRASTRUCTURE

The province’s two bigger cities, Batangas and Lipa, ranked considerably higher than Tanauan in terms of infrastructure. Batangas City is ranked 65^th nationwide while Lipa City is five places further down at 70. Tanauan City, meanwhile, is at 108^th. As with the two previous pillars, all three cities of Batangas scored better last year.

Infrastructure
	National Rank	Score
Batangas City	65	6.4122
Lipa City	70	6.3142
Tanauan City	108	5.6677

RESILIENCE

Finally, in the new pillar that is Resilience, both Batangas City and Tanauan City far outperform Lipa City. Batangas City is 21^st nationwide while Tanauan City is at 35. Lipa City is way down the nationwide table at 96.

Resilience
	National Rank	Score
Batangas City	21	16.8043
Tanauan City	35	16.4329
Lipa City	96	15.7621

OVERALL RANKING

To cap, Batangas City wrested the title of the province’s most competitive city by emerging on top in the pillars Economic Dynamism, Infrastructure and Resilience. Tanauan City, last year’s most competitive city in Batangas, topped the Government Efficiency Survey. Only Lipa City did not top any of the four identified pillars. Batangas City is ranked 33^rd nationwide while Tanauan City and Lipa City are at 44^th and 55^th, respectively.

Overall Ranking
	National Rank	Total Score
Batangas City	33	39.3451
Tanauan City	44	38.6222
Lipa City	55	38.0788

To see the methodology used in arriving at these results, please visit the Cities and Municipalities Index web site. The complete sets of data are also at the same site.

To see the 2016 results for Batangas, read Tanauan, Batangas City Improve in 2016 National Competitiveness Ranking; Lipa Drops 22 Places.

To see the 2017 rankings for the municipalities of Batangas, read Lemery, Bauan, Rosario, Calaca, Taal Top Batangas Municipalities in 2017 Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index.

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