THE release of the second quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data on Tuesday by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) indicated that the economy expanded by 11.8 percent year-on-year. In strictly numerical terms, this represented the highest GDP growth rate recorded by the Philippines since 1988, and it elicited completely predictable reactions from officials of the Duterte administration.

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