{"id":349037,"date":"2026-03-26T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/349037\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:53:14","slug":"philippines-central-bank-warns-monetary-policy-cannot-tame-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/349037\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines central bank warns monetary policy cannot tame inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/iran-tensions\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran tensions<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Governor says price rises being driven by factors outside its control<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20260326 Philippines Grocery Store\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Shoppers at a supermarket in Metro Manila in the Philippines. The country&#8217;s central bank forecast on March 26\u00a0that inflation will average 5.1% in 2026. (Photo by Yuki Fujita)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">MANILA &#8212; The Philippine central bank forecast on Thursday inflation is likely to average above 5% this year and that monetary policy &#8220;couldn&#8217;t do very much&#8221; to bring it down because rising prices are being driven by factors outside its control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran tensions Governor says price rises being driven by factors outside its control Shoppers at a supermarket in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1643,138,87228,1853,219,1943,29135,111,139,69,4291,7254,84773,8218],"class_list":["post-349037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-bank","tag-business","tag-cannot","tag-central","tag-economy","tag-inflation","tag-monetary","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-philippines","tag-policy","tag-tame","tag-warns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}