The country’s economic growth should accelerate this year, although it would still remain below the outgoing government’s 6.8 percent to 7.8 percent target, incoming National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) secretary Ernesto Pernia said on Thursday.

In interview on ANC’s Headstart, Pernia said that economic growth above 6.2 percent is possible for 2016.

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