A good economic indicator is certainly better than a poor one, but I think in this case it would have been better for the government to have avoided drawing attention to it.
I WAS as surprised as everyone else that the fourth-quarter and annual gross domestic product growth figures, released last Thursday, were much higher than every forecast; about a full percentage point higher, as a matter of fact, at 7.2 percent and 7.6 percent, respectively. The exceptional GDP figure is so far detached from most people's real-world experience that it, and the claim that it was due to 'President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
The country was lucky to have weathered the Covid-19 pandemic as well as it did with the DoH being led at the time by a secretary who was more a career politician and real estate speculator than a public health specialist, and paid for his position in the form of substantial campaign contributions to the then president.
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