PHILIPPINE economic growth could have accelerated in the fourth quarter of 2023 given factors such as a better jobs picture, an economist said.

"[W]e should not be surprised at [October-December gross domestic product growth of] 6.0 percent," University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) senior economist Victor Abola told reporters on the sidelines of an economic briefing last Thursday.

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