Philippines GDP (Q1)

The larger-than-expected contraction in the Philippines economy in Q1 suggests that the lockdown there is having a severe impact on economic activity and that growth is likely to be even worse than we feared in 2020. We are downgrading our forecast from -4.0% to -6.0%.

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