DoF: High and inclusive growth is economic managers’ goal

All policy recommendations of the economic managers to President Rodrigo Duterte are anchored on sustaining high and inclusive growth and not wrong and anti-poor advice on such issues as the land conversion the Social Security System (SSS) pension hike, Finance Undersecretary Secretary Paola Alvarez said on Friday.

In fact, “all policy recommendations to President Duterte by DOF Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd and the other economic managers are anchored on sustaining high growth and enabling all sectors across all regions to benefit from it in the form of more jobs, higher incomes and better living standards,” Alvarez, the Department of Finance (DOF) spokesperson, said in an emailed statement.