Washington-based lender World Bank has forecast a year of disappointing growth for the Philippines in 2014, but banking giant Standard Chartered thinks otherwise as it projected the economy to remain one of the fastest-growing among the world’s emerging economies.

In its latest Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report released on Wednesday, the World Bank said that its outlook for developing countries like the Philippines is for flat growth in 2014.

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