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The new government has focussed on tax system and introduced a tax reform program that helped the country’s economic growth with respect to consumer lending. The World Bank signified that the Philippine financial market system will grow rapidly due to its consumer confidence and transparency of building regulations. According to research report “Consumer Lending in the Philippines”, country’s robust banking system is crucial in the consumer lending field where it ensures stability and rapid growth in the country’s economy. Thus, the Filipinos are now more confident to take more loans from the retail banks for automobile or domestic purpose.
The rapid growth in Philippine domestic economy has created more jobs which washed out poverty to some extent. The recent economic developments in Philippines was somewhat driven by the presidential elections. The fixed capital investment rose to 25.6%. There were vast opportunities in the field of construction, manufacturing and service sectors.
As per the economy growth statistics for the first quarter of 2017, it showed that the primary income for the nation slowed down by 3.9% and the gross national income has risen to 5.9%. The Philippines economy is aiming at a 6.5% to 7.5% GDP for the year 2017.
The services sector is the highest contributor to the growth of the nation’s economy. The industry sector stands second and agriculture sector stands in the third place. The IPP (Intellectual Property products) are outstanding with the growth contribution of 27.2%. The export and imported goods contributed 22.3% and 20.8% respectively.
