South-east Asia's improved growth numbers not sustainable: economists
Fall in imports rather than exports strength underpinning recovery
Jakarta
STRONGER-THAN-EXPECTED growth in some South-east Asian economies has sparked optimism the worst of a slowdown may be over, but high debt and weak exports make sustaining the momentum a challenge for policymakers as US interest rates go up.
The Philippines wrapped up the region's third-quarter GDP performance on Thursday with annual growth of 6 per cent, up from 5.8 per cent in the second quarter.
Annual growth also picked up in Indonesia and Thailand, the region's two largest economies, taking weighted average growth in the region of some 500 million…
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