Rapid economic growth, surging imports and strong credit growth have fuelled fears that the Philippines is overheating and that the central bank will be soon be forced to hike interest rates to bring the economy under control. We think such fears are unfounded. Instead, the main risks to the economy centre on the uncertain political outlook following the recent election of Rodrigo Duterte as president.
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