DESPITE revising the growth rates of the country’s economic sectors, state statisticians on Wednesday kept the official economic growth figure for the first quarter at 5.6 percent.

In a report, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said figures for services and agriculture were revised downward from 7 percent to 6.8 percent to 0.8 percent to 0.7 percent, respectively.

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