Let the economy fire up its growth engines for 2018

about the Philippine economy toward 2018 seems to be growing among economic analysts and the business developing market narrative continues to propel the Philippines

While the US, Europe and Japan economies gain some steam after the big slowdown in recent years, the Philippines, along with other

Philippines, it means stronger import demand from the country’s main trading partners, such as the United States, Japan, World Bank lead economist for the

A number of banks have revised their growth outlook for the Philippine economy upward for this year and at least two of them raised their forecasts for 2018 since they learned that gross domestic

Although that still looks slower than the 2016 economic growth rate 2017 has been overcome by increased consumption and spending in

remains on solid ground as one of Asia’s growth leaders, and it will

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pronounced upward revision of its economic growth forecast

A few other banks, both local and foreign, share this positive perception of the Philippine economy, and they, needless to say, base their

At least for this year, these banks almost by consensus have raised

a more likely outcome of all that economic activity in the country that

In June this year, the World Bank was even more positive about the Philippines, seeing it as the 10th fastest-growing economy globally,

But such assumptions hinged on the amount of spending on public infrastructure released into the general economy, and not seeing enough of that during the time as the Duterte administration shifted away from the Public-Private Partnership

percent, however, the World Bank regained some of that optimism some of that optimism enough to also talk about a potential push

After getting over the humps of underspending, the Philippine economy has gained what looks like unstoppable momentum at this and stability in the country by allowing terror, crime and hostility to velocity with policy support for incentives for bigger investment,