“The Philippines is leading [in] economic recovery and performance not only in the Asia-Pacific but also in the world.”
What Vera Files found
In Southeast Asia alone, the Philippines’ gross domestic product (GDP) is the eighth slowest to recover from the recession brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, data from the IBON Foundation show. Data from the ASEAN Statistics Division and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) show that the country posted the third highest inflation rate while unemployment rate is the fourth highest as of October 2022.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. made this claim around 21 January 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 30 January 2023, 9 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has 31 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 11 of them false or fake, 20 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/BLa44wADnj8?t=172
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