Economic managers tout gains ahead of State of the Nation Address

THE GOVERNMENT has put key pieces of reforms in place for the country to build “strong momentum” to grow faster in the years ahead. The secretaries of Finance and of Public Works and Highways as well as the socioeconomic planning chief kicked off the first of three planned pre-State of the Nation Address (SONA) fora to inform the public of the government’s achievements. The briefings are designed to give President Rodrigo R. Duterte more leeway in saying what he would want to say in his third SONA on July 23. >> http://bit.ly/2uf1QlI