Chargé D’affaires, a.i. Marcos A.S. Punsalang delivered a guest lecture on 9 May 2017 at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile on the state of the Philippine economy, highlighting President Rodrigo Duterte’s 10-Point Socioeconomic Agenda and government efforts to ensure that the Philippines’ economic gains will trickle down to microeconomic level.
The graduate students in attendance had the chance to learn of the continuous gains of the Philippine economy and its 6.8% to 7% growth projections, the persistent challenges faced by the government in addressing socioeconomic concerns, the country’s leading industries and opportunities for the Philippines in the ASEAN Economic Community, stressing the complementarities through intra-industry trade among ASEAN countries. The lecture was also a chance for the Chargé D’affaires to discuss ASEAN economic integration and present some of the outcomes of the 30th ASEAN Summit and the Philippine Chairmanship of ASEAN.
The lecture was conducted as part of a series on ASEAN for the course on East Asian studies of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile’s Masters in International Relations program.
