HIGHER government spending and inflation averaging within target could drive second-quarter economic growth to 5.9 percent, private sector economists said.

"We don't see a repeat of the first quarter downbeat," economists from First Metro Investment Corp. (FMIC) and the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) economists said in the latest edition of The Market Call report.

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