Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Benjamin Diokno (left) provides assurance that the BSP will remain patient in keeping policy support available to the economy during a conference hosted by the Asian Development Bank Institute and the Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association. Diokno says the BSP has ‘focused on sustaining this road to recovery’ as he notes that inflation remains manageable and that bank lending to productive economic sectors picks up. With Diokno during the event are (from left top, clockwise) Central Bank of Sri Lanka Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal, Nepal Rastra Bank Deputy Governor Bam Bahadur Mishra, APAEA President Paresh Narayan and Bank of Japan Associate Director-General Atsushi Takeuchi.
