{"id":33811,"date":"2014-12-05T00:45:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T16:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=33811"},"modified":"2014-12-05T00:45:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T16:45:16","slug":"phl-gdp-growth-at-above-6-until-2016-icaew-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/05\/phl-gdp-growth-at-above-6-until-2016-icaew-report\/","title":{"rendered":"PHL GDP growth at above 6% until 2016 &#8212; ICAEW report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GDP-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33812\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GDP-2014.jpg\" alt=\"GDP 2014\" width=\"701\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GDP-2014.jpg 701w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GDP-2014-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Philippine economy will remain as the fastest growing economy in Southeast Asia until 2016, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales\u2019 (ICAEW) fourth quarter 2014 Economic Insight showed.<\/p>\n<p>The latest ICAEW\u2019s report has compared six largest economies in ASEAN including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Centre for Economic and Business Research (Cebr), the producer of the Economic Insight and ICAEW\u2019s partner for global economic forecasting, sees gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the Philippines at 6.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s GDP growth of the country is higher than the projected growth for Indonesia at 5.0 percent; Malaysia at 5.2 percent; Singapore at 3.1 percent; Thailand at 1.9 percent; and Vietnam at 5.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>This economic trend for the Philippines is seen to continue in 2015 with growth rate at 6.4 percent and in 2016 at 6.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that the small budget deficit under the Aquino administration and the fast economic growth of the country has allowed the government to increase spending particularly in infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Philippines has kept budget deficits relatively small under President Benigno Aquino, allowing some room for maneuver. Fast growth, forecast at 6.6 percent for 2014, allows progress on improving the country\u2019s underdeveloped infrastructure,\u201d ICAEW\u2019s report mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s economic growth for the next five years, however, is to be declining but remains one of the strongest growth among the six ASEAN economies.<\/p>\n<p>The report also showed that the Philippines\u2019 GDP growth from 2014 to 2019 is higher than the growth of the whole ASEAN region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Philippine economy will remain as the fastest growing economy in Southeast Asia until 2016, the Institute of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":33812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news-ph","mauthors-kris-m-crismundo","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}