ASEANEWS | Paper Edition Headlines | ECONOMY: MANILA- Business groups nod as Marcos forms economic team

May 27, 2022May 27, 2022 Editor 0 Comment ASEANEWS | Paper Edition Headlines | ECONOMY: Business groups nod as Marcos forms economic team

Earning an early thumbs-up from business groups, President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thursday announced new appointments to his economic team, emphasizing his incoming administration’s focus on steering the economy out of a slump.

A day after he and Vice President-elect Sara Duterte were proclaimed winners by Congress in the May 9 polls, Marcos said he was nominating Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin Diokno as his finance secretary and then President Joseph Estrada’s former National Economic Development Authority (Neda) chief Felipe Medalla as BSP governor.

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By: Jeannette I. Andrade – Reporter / @jiandradeINQ

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