Sustained high levels of real Gross Domestic Product(GDP) growth has been a feature of the Aquino administration's term and a positive contrast to that of his two predecessors. The latest International Monetary Fund(IMF) estimates for 2014 and 2015. again have the Philippine growth rate as the fastest among Southeast Asia's six main economies(Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) and well above the average for the ten ASEAN economies, ln 2011, the Philippines was the second slowest growing major Southeast Asian economy well behind the regional average. In 2014 the national economy is expected to grow at 6.2 per cent compared with the Southeast Asian average of 5.5 per cent. In 2015. the Philippines is predicted to grow at a ruddy 6.3 per cent compared with the predicted regional average of 5.6 per cent. According to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the growth in remittances inflows in 2014 matched real GDP growth with almost US$20 billion flowing into the Philippines in the first nine months of 2014, up 6.2 per cent, Remittance flows equate to roughly 10 per cent of total gross national income. As of the end of October, growth in goods exports at 11.9 per cent and services exports at 9.2 per cent outstripped real GDP growth in another positive sign for the economy.