THE Duterte administration did better than its predecessors in reining in upward price pressures to the country’s inflation rate, the Department of Finance (DoF) claimed on Monday.

In a statement, the Finance department quoted Undersecretary Gil Beltran as saying the current administration took only 11 months to tame elevated inflation rates to below 4 percent — the fastest in almost two decades — unlike previous ones, which took longer.

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