The Philippine economy will sustain its expansion in 2018 and 2019, with the main driving force being the infrastructure facility development programme as well as taxation reform policy.
Vietnam needs to step up reforms to benefit more from the CPTPP signed by 11 nations in Chile on March 8, said Hoe Ee Khor, Chief Economist of the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) in Singapore.