Philippines' GDP slump eases to 11.5% in Q3

Worse than expected performance makes annual target 'no longer feasible'

20201109 Philippine queue for subsidy

Filipinos queue for cash subsidies from the government amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Quezon City, Metro Manila in August. © Reuters

CLIFF VENZON, Nikkei staff writer

MANILA -- The Philippine economy shrank 11.5% year-on-year in the third quarter, improving from a record contraction that plunged the Southeast Asian nation into its first recession in three decades.

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