PH growth ‘will still be close to 6.8’

Economic growth could fall below target this year but the government’s infrastructure push will drive the expansion past the 2017 mark, a Cabinet official said.

“I think we will still be close to 6.8 percent this year. I think the momentum on our ‘Build Build Build’ is strong and we are really moving quite well in our infrastructure program,” Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd said in a recent interview with Stephen Schwartz, head of APAC sovereigns at Fitch Ratings.