Economics Team

The Global Property Guide's economics team was formed by our former chief economist Prince Cruz, now a staffer with the Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) and author of ADB working papers.  Prince Cruz created the Global Property Guide Training Module. 

Lalaine C. Delmendo is senior economist, and the author of many of the long-form country economic reports which are our flagship editorial product.  She heads the Global Property Guide's economics team. Lalaine joined the Global Property Guide in July 2008.  She is particularly interested in analysing financial and economics data.   She has a BSc (Cum Laude ) in Business Economics from the University of the Philippines – Diliman (UP-Diliman), the Philippines' top-ranked university.  She is assisted by Maria de Guzman, who  joined the Global Property Guide's economics team in July 2010.  She is currently completing an MA in Economics at the University of the Philippines – Diliman (UP-Diliman), and has a BA in Economics from the University of Santo Tomas