WIRE — PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. on Thursday welcomed the Philippines' reclassification as an upper-middle income country (UMIC) by the World Bank, but economists cautioned that slowing growth could threaten the country's ability to retain the status.
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