This column has paid great attention to economic reform issues that affect the direction of national development. As a result, macroeconomic policy is no longer on the critical watchlist of economic issues as in the past. Wars between countries, natural calamities, and economic adversities in major countries can transmit their effects of other countries. As a country, we have become a market for the sale for foreign goods rather than as a point of production of these goods within ASEAN. In general, the answers require that more essential economic reforms need to take place in order to provide a good set of outcomes.

Source: Philippine Star August 22, 2023 22:00 UTC