MANY salaried workers could hardly feel the much-trumpeted economic growth brought about by reforms that the government has reportedly been instituting in the last four or five years, because prices of consumer goods and services keep going up without corresponding pay adjustments.

The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) recently reported that the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded 6.90 percent in the last quarter of 2014 over the period of the previous year.

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