THE Philippine economy remains "far from being down and out," private sector economists said, despite persistently high inflation and continuing negativity.

"Rather, the robustness remains until some more dramatic [unlikely] negative event[s] demolishes it," economists from First Metro Investment Corp. and the University of Asia and the Pacific said in the latest edition of their monthly Market Call report.

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