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Philippines in no rush to hike, new growth forecasts

Falling inflation and an increasingly uncertain economic outlook add weight to our non-consensus view that the central bank in the Philippines (BSP) will not tighten monetary policy in 2022. Meanwhile, the near-term outlook for growth has taken a turn for the worse due to the arrival of Omicron, and we are nudging down our GDP growth forecasts for the first quarter of this year for several countries.

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