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The Philippines is leaving its past behind

Yesterday’s debt rating upgrade from Moody’s was catch-up and long overdue but does at least acknowledge the increased resilience of the Philippine economy to global shocks and its likely higher long-run trend GDP growth rate. Four factors lie behind the improvement.

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