Manila, April 4 -- Government efforts to control inflation are showing results as the country's inflation rate continued to ease, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said.

In a statement Friday following the 1.8 percent inflation rate in March 2025 reported by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), NEDA Secretary Arsenio Balisacan said the lower inflation shows that the government's efforts to keep prices stable are working.

Inflation in March 2025 eased from a 2.1 percent rate in February mainly due to substantial decrease in rice prices since the Marcos administration implemented the tariff reduction on imported rice in July 2024.

PSA Undersecretary Claire Dennis Mapa, in a press briefing, said rice prices have...