Ipinahayag kamakailan ni Albay Rep. Joey Salceda na ang inflation rate ng Pilipinas ay “isa sa pinakamababa pa rin sa mundo,” at sinabing ito ay malamang na “bunga ng diskarte” ng economic managers ng bansa. Ito ay nangangailangan ng konteksto.
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Check out these sources
House of Representatives, Committee on Appropriations, Feb. 28, 2023
Dr. Ser Percival Peña-Reyes, Personal communication (interview), March 1, 2023
Nicholas Mapa, Personal communication (email), March 6, 2023
Ha, Jongrim, M. Ayhan Kose, and Franziska Ohnsorge, One-Stop Source: A Global Database of Inflation. Policy Research Working Paper 9737. World Bank, Washington DC
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook (October 2022) – Inflation rate, average consumer prices, March 2, 2023
Philippine Statistics Authority, Press Conference on February 2023 Inflation Report, March, 7, 2023
Philippine Statistics Authority, Press Conference on January 2023 Inflation, Feb. 7, 2023