THANK God, the poor and the working-class Filipinos will not suffer much from high prices because of inflation this year. The Bangko Sentral the other week lowered its already low inflation forecast for the year (from 2.4 percent to 2.2 percent).

Consumer prices will likely continue being benign until the end of the year and even beyond.

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