MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine economy grew 5.2% in the third quarter from a year earlier, the statistics agency said on Thursday, slower the previous quarter's upwardly revised growth of 6.4%.
Economists in a Reuters poll had expected annual gross domestic product growth of 5.7% in the July to September period.
(Reporting by Neil Jerome Morales and Mikhail Flores; Editing by John Mair)
