ECONOMY OF THE PHILIPPINES - Taxing targets may ruin reforms
The Philippines is in its strongest economic position for years, with record remittances from overseas workers and a rise in liquidity and consumer demand. But tax evasion and problems with revenue collection, combined with stagnant unemployment figures and a strengthening peso, threaten to undermine the government's improved fiscal functioning. Ian Gill reports.
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