Lemery, Bauan, Rosario, Calaca, Taal Top Batangas Municipalities in 2017 Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index

Poblacion Lemery.  Image credit:  Google Street View.

Lemery, Bauan, Rosario, Calaca and Taal are the Top 5 towns of Batangas in the 2017 Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index released last month by the National Competitiveness Council. The Province of Batangas itself rose one notch from ninth nationwide last year to eighth this year.

This year’s results are skewed somewhat by the introduction of the Resilience pillar so that San Juan, for instance, last year’s top municipality in Batangas, tumbled down all the way down to seventh.

The Resilience pillar “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 encounter¹.”

In previous surveys, cities and municipalities around the country were ranked on the basis of only three pillars: Economic Dynamism, Government Efficiency and Infrastructure.

Readers will please note that the rankings cited in this article are those aggregated for all municipalities around the country regardless of their classification (i.e. First to Sixth Class). The lowest rank nationwide is 1340.

The Top 5 municipalities of each of the four pillars will be presented below in tabular form with the complete table presented at the bottom of this page.

ECONOMIC DYNAMISM

In the Economic Dynamism pillar, the town of Santo Tomas ranks an impressive third nationwide; and it would be higher ranked overall were its results not skewed by its poor performances in the pillars Government Efficiency and Resilience. Lemery is ranked 35^th nationwide while San Juan, Rosario and Bauan complete Batangas’ Top 5 most economically dynamic municipalities.

GOVERNMENT EFFICICIENCY

The heritage town of Taal tops all other municipalities of Batangas in the pillar of Government Efficiency, ranking 36^th nationwide. Lemery and Bauan did well in this pillar as well, but both were outdone by the small towns of Mataasnakahoy and Calaca, both with Top 100 national rankings.

INFRASTRUCTURE

The town of Rosario ranks a very impressive 8^th nationwide in terms of infrastructure, with Top 30 rankings for Lemery, Nasugbu, Santo Tomas and Bauan. There are actually nine towns of Batangas in the Top 100 nationwide.

RESILIENCE

Bauan is the top municipality in Batangas in terms of the new pillar Resilience with a nationwide rank of 45. San Jose breaks into the Top 5 in Batangas for the first time, with Calaca, Taal and Lemery completing the cast. It goes without saying that Local Government Units in Batangas need to give this new pillar a closer examination because more than half of the province’s towns rank 500 and lower.

OVERALL TABLE

Below is the overall ranking for all municipalities of Batangas, with national standings as well as rankings and points for each of the four pillars to measure competitiveness.

		Nationwide		ED*		GE**		I***		R****
	Municipalities	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score
1	Lemery	25	40.47	35	6.05	154	10.66	23	7.51	99	16.25
2	Bauan	31	39.94	48	5.80	239	10.28	29	7.41	45	16.46
3	Rosario	40	39.18	45	5.84	686	8.27	8	8.91	134	16.16
4	Calaca	43	38.88	110	5.12	84	11.06	122	6.29	55	16.41
5	Taal	44	38.81	273	4.49	36	11.58	109	6.33	56	16.41
6	Nasugbu	70	38.16	67	5.47	439	9.50	26	7.43	359	15.77
7	San Juan	73	38.10	43	5.88	489	9.29	62	6.75	131	16.18
8	San Jose	91	37.78	59	5.58	295	10.06	338	5.79	70	16.35
9	Mataasnakahoy	147	36.85	228	4.62	65	11.25	573	5.50	508	15.47
10	Santo Tomas	211	36.03	3	8.89	1035	6.15	27	7.42	933	13.57
11	Balayan	226	35.92	53	5.68	592	8.73	82	6.50	672	15.02
12	Lobo	230	35.89	175	4.76	417	9.61	241	5.94	435	15.58
13	Malvar	324	34.99	82	5.29	793	7.67	132	6.25	355	15.78
14	Alitagtag	363	34.65	345	4.38	287	10.09	370	5.74	795	14.45
15	San Pascual	368	34.62	603	4.01	639	8.49	249	5.92	120	16.20
16	Padre Garcia	503	33.44	202	4.67	859	7.39	411	5.69	378	15.69
17	Taysan	507	33.38	319	4.42	626	8.57	179	6.10	840	14.30
18	Lian	525	33.23	229	4.61	843	7.42	387	5.72	502	15.48
19	Balete	561	32.94	389	4.30	794	7.66	616	5.45	474	15.52
20	Ibaan	573	32.82	104	5.16	614	8.65	248	5.92	978	13.09
21	Tuy	590	32.69	379	4.32	738	7.96	342	5.78	774	14.63
22	Cuenca	593	32.66	162	4.81	638	8.50	40	7.04	1070	12.32
23	Mabini	633	32.31	115	5.07	724	8.06	49	6.91	1071	12.27
24	Laurel	715	31.59	279	4.49	1071	5.76	376	5.73	414	15.61
25	San Luis	790	30.83	673	3.93	607	8.68	723	5.34	1010	12.89
26	Santa Teresita	833	30.42	782	3.79	575	8.83	1136	3.60	851	14.20
27	Calatagan	877	29.92	570	4.04	1126	5.31	865	5.05	473	15.52
28	Agoncillo	950	28.96	169	4.78	825	7.52	1162	3.19	943	13.48
29	Talisay	960	28.82	470	4.20	845	7.42	852	5.08	1077	12.13
30	San Nicolas	1166	23.63	1185	2.96	951	6.79	1333	0.18	910	13.70
31	Tingloy	1247	17.69	1111	3.17	1227	4.05	1280	2.05	1205	8.42

* Economic Dynamism
** Government Efficiency
*** Infrastructure
**** Resilience

To see how these rankings were arrived at, please read the Methodology provided by the National Competitiveness council.

To see how a municipality's performance changed from 2016, read the 2016 Competitiveness Rankings: San Juan, Bauan Stay Top Towns in Batangas; Lemery 3rd; Rosario, Nasugbu Enter Top 5.

Read about the Competitiveness Index results for cities:  2017 Competitiveness Index: Batangas First, Lipa Third in Batangas Province.

Notes and references:
¹ “DTI, NCC Now Working on Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index 2017,” online at the DTI web site.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you enjoyed this article, please click the Like button or share it freely on social media. It helps to pay this site's domain name and maintenance costs.

Share |