Analysts cite good, bad sides of Duterte’s 1st year in office

THE appointment of an insider as the new central bank governor and a stop to graft-prone government-to-government rice imports are among the good decisions made by President Rodrigo Duterte in his first year in office, according to analysts.

They however expressed some reservations on the Palace-backed tax reform bill pending in Congress as well as the administration’s ambitious P8-trillion infrastructure rollout, in a forum at the Ateneo Professional Schools in Makati City on Thursday.