IKINATUWA ni Pangulong Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. ang 7.6 porsyentong paglago ng ekonomiya noong 2022.

Ayon kay Marcos mas lalo pang lalakas ang ekonomiya ng bansa sa pagpasok ng mga foreign investment.

“We are happy to receive the news that our growth rate for the year 2022 exceeded all expectations even by the estimates of the international financing institutions and we are holding at 7.6 percent,” ani Pangulong Marcos. “However, for 2023, we still have the problem of inflation which means there is still a problem of certain sectors of society and of the economy, [who] have yet to enjoy the benefits of that growth. And that’s why inflation is something that we are attending to.”

Ayon sa Pangulo inaasahan ng kanyang administrasyon ang pagbaba ng inflation rate o bilis ng pagtaas ng presyo ng bilihin sa huling bahagi ng ikalawang quarter ng taon.

Sa pagtataya ng Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), sa ikatlo at ika-apat na quarter ng taon ay maaaring nasa 4 porsyento na lamang ang inflation rate.

“We must maintain, however, that growth rate and that is why it has become so important for us to go out and to attract investment into the Philippines because that is the only way for economic activity to increase and therefore to grow the economy,” ani Pangulong Marcos.

“So I think that we are headed in the right direction. We still have some interventions that we will have to apply. But nonetheless, we are weathering the shocks on the international economic situation and we are starting to see that the economy is moving in the correct direction,” paliwanag ng Pangulo.

Iniulat ng Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) na nakapagtala ang bansa ng 7.6 porsyentong gross domestic product growth (GDP) noong nakaraang taon, ang pinakamataas na paglago ng ekonomiya sa nakalipas na 46 taon mula ng maitala ang 8.8 porsyento noong 1976.