Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte will continue his predecessor's macroeconomic policies focusing on higher infrastructure spending and fiscal efficiency, aides said on Thursday in a bid to end uncertainty around his growth agenda.
Duterte ran on a single-issue campaign focused on law and order for a presidential election on Monday, and while an official winner had not been declared, an unofficial count by an election commission-accredited watchdog showed he easily won.
Duterte will accelerate infrastructure spending by speeding up outgoing President Benigno Aquino's flagship public-private partnership programme, Carlos Dominguez, former agriculture minister and a member of Duterte's policy team, told a media briefing.