BENJAMIN DIOKNO Comment

摘要

My appointment as governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) in March 2019 may have surprised many. In honesty, I too was not expecting the job offer. Almost half way into my term as budget secretary, I was preoccupied with the reforms meant to fulfil an expansionary fiscal policy that will catapult the Philippines to its next stage of economic development. Our reform-oriented work in the budget department was public knowledge.