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.
Worse than expected performance makes annual target 'no longer feasible'
Filipinos queue for cash subsidies from the government amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Quezon City, Metro Manila in August. © Reuters
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.