MANILA -- Philippine outsourcing companies are raising alarm about a move by President Rodrigo Duterte to halt the creation of special economic zones around the capital, the latest step in his efforts to promote development in other parts of the sprawling archipelago.
Since his successful election campaign in 2016, Duterte, a native of the far-south city of Davao, has pushed an agenda of decentralizing political and economic activity from congested Manila.
