the philippines’ economic recovery gained traction in the third quarter despite tough curbs on movement amid the nation’s worst covid outbreak yet gross domestic product grew a seasonally adjusted 38 in julyseptember from the previous quarter according to presentation material uploaded in a zoom briefing ahead of data release higher than all estimates in a bloomberg survey of 13 economists that compares to the 14 median growth estimate in the survey and a 13 contraction on the sequential basis in the second quarter