Economist, Centennial Asia Advisors

Nicholas Chia

Centennial Asia Advisors deliver timely and accurate economic and political analysis to investors, focused on anticipating key turning points that affect the client’s interests in the Asia-Pacific region. Clients include public agencies and central banks, as well as fund managers and investment banks. The company draws strength from its flexibility to tailor products to fit client’s specific interests. It provides detailed macro-economic forecasts, scenario analysis and timely assessments of how specific major economic and political developments may affect a client’s areas of interest. At Centennial Asia Advisors, we tell it like it is. We have no vested interests, no need for a China wall, and no reason to skew our outlook any other way.

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<li>Could the Philippines <em>also</em> surprise on the upside? The 3Q21 GDP print easily blew past market expectations, thanks to highly resilient household spending.</li>
<li>As economic activity turns up, so does credit demand and labour market conditions, which should arrest the lurch downwards in asset quality.</li>
<li>The mooted suspension of the excise tax, if it materialises in its current form, would undo the gains that the Philippines managed when it comes to expanding its tax base.</li>
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Could the Philippines also surprise on the upside? The 3Q21 GDP print easily blew past market expectations, thanks to highly resilient household spending.
As economic activity turns up, so does credit demand and labour market conditions, which should arrest the lurch downwards in asset quality.
The mooted suspension of the excise tax, if it materialises in its current form, would undo the gains that the Philippines managed when it comes to expanding its tax base.


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