6.5% or higher growth ‘very easily achievable’

S&P Global Ratings believes the Philippines can “very easily” achieve 6.5 percent or higher growth for the next two years on account of demographic trends and the government’s infrastructure program.

“Growth-wise ... the past two years has actually been stellar and in terms of the outlook for the next two years, we think that 6.5 percent and above as a pace of growth is actually very easily achievable,” S&P Asia-Pacific economist Vincent Conti said in a webcast on Tuesday.