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The peso appreciation and the sustainability of Philippine growth: need we worry?

Philippine Review of Economics

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Title The peso appreciation and the sustainability of Philippine growth: need we worry?
 
Creator Fabella, Raul V.; School of Economics, University of the Philippines
 
Subject peso appreciation; sustainable growth
 
Description The rapid appreciation of the Philippine peso and the resulting loss of competitiveness militate against long-term “balanced and sustainable growth”. A review of history shows that fighting inflation with appreciation of currency “seeds” a financial storm. In contrast, the undervaluation of the domestic currency has been shown to robustly improve economic growth in less developed countries like the Philippines. The government, however, need not embark on an aggressive depreciation of the peso but rather on keeping the exchange rate between Php 42 and Php 43 to a dollar for the next five years. This will likely raise further the foreign exchange reserves now at record levels. In order to achieve sustainable growth, the government has to craft an “exit strategy" from the remittance-driven economy by deploying the remitted OFW money to build first-class infrastructure. This can be done by selling infrastructure bonds to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, which create further demand for dollars and ease the pressure for appreciation coming from the continuing forex inflows.Classification-JEL: F31, O40, E30
 
Publisher Philippine Review of Economics
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2012-08-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/658
 
Source Philippine Review of Economics; Vol 48, No 1 (2011): Papers from the Ayala Corporation and the University of the Philippines School of Economics (AC-UPSE) Economic Forum; 1-12
1655-1516
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/658/764
 
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