The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is set to review its Philippine growth outlook for the full year to consider the impact of the economy’s weaker-than-expected performance in the first quarter.

The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 5.2 percent in the first quarter of 2015, the slowest since the fourth quarter of 2011. The rate was far behind the 7.3 percent expansion the IMF had expected for the first three months, and fell below the range of forecasts by private analysts of between 6 and 6.8 percent.

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