A CONTINUED economic recovery and reform efforts will allow to achieve its goal of attaining upper-middle-income status in the near term, an analyst said.

"Increasing the productivity of agriculture and manufacturing would help expedite the achievement of the county's middle-income status in the coming years," Michael Ricafort, chief economist at Rizal Commercial Banking Corp., told The Manila Times.

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