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In October 2019, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected that the Philippine economy would grow by 6.2 per cent this year.

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Philippine economy had grown by an average of 7.5 per cent annually between 2014 and 2019.

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Unemployment rose during the first quarter of 2020 to 17.7 per cent, the highest rate since 2005, though this eased to 10 per cent and 8.7 per cent in the second and third quarters respectively.

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4.Labor participation was at 58.7 per cent for the third quarter — a slight decrease from 61.9 per cent in the previous quarter but higher than the 55.7 per cent in the first quarter.

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The result of the statistics suggests that Filipinos are not necessarily getting their old jobs back and may instead be dropping out of the workforce as discouraged workers or school returnees.

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