The country’s central bank chief still wants to reduce banks’ required reserves, a move monetary authorities will have to manage to ensure that the additional liquidity benefits the economy.

“The reserve requirement is something that I would like to personally see [go] to single-digit level,” Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Nestor Espenilla Jr. told reporters on Wednesday.

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