The coronavirus pandemic dragged optimism among midmarket businesses in the Philippines in the second half of 2020, a Grant Thornton report found.

The accounting firm’s International Business Report (IBR) showed that of the 50 midsized businesses surveyed in the country, 49 percent have a “slightly or very optimistic economic outlook for the next 12 months,” 5 percentage points lower than the first-semester figure.

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