Economy can now discount election-related noise–PIDS

THERE are no difficult barriers for government to target and actually achieve higher levels of growth with positive factors propping the local economy, a noted economist said on Monday. But what may be more daunting is how to sustain the bullish outlook for economic expansions like this year’s 6.1 percent to 6.7 percent pegged by President Arroyo’s economic team, according to Gilberto M. Llanto, senior research fellow at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies.