MANILA, Philippines — National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua is pushing for a less stringent community quarantine status in the National Capital Region (NCR) Plus area by the middle or end of May for the country to achieve its economic targets.
Chua said the Development Budget Coordination Committee has projected a 6.5 to 7.5 percent gross domestic product growth in 2021, and 8 to 10 percent growth in 2022.
“In other words, we will recover to pre-pandemic levels sometime in 2022,” he said in an interview on ABS-CBN News Channel.
But when asked if the country could achieve this projection if the NCR Plus will continue to be…
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