The latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey which showed that 51%, or +44, of adults Filipinos had said the Philippine economy will improve in the next 12 months is a welcome development.

The Palace considers this rating, classified as “excellent” by SWS and the highest net economic optimism since September 2016, as clear indication of how effective our calibrated strategy of shifting to Alert Level System to further reopen the economy – where more businesses are operating and more Filipinos are able to go to work – while ramping our COVID-19 vaccination drive.

Our people have more reasons to feel confident about the future, especially now that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte signed Executive Order No. 166, which adopted a Ten-Point Policy Agenda to accelerate and sustain economic from the COVID-19 pandemic, and directing a whole-of-government approach to align all economic recovery programs and measures of the national government. This indeed demonstrates that government has concrete plans to sustain our economic rebound.

Sec. Martin M. Andanar
Presidential Communications Secretary and Acting Presidential Spokesperson