The national government’s budget deficit in 2016 widened from a year earlier but remained short of the government’s programmed deficit-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio, the Bureau of Treasury (BTr) reported Thursday.
Data released by the BTr showed the government registered a P353.4 billion fiscal deficit last year, up 190 percent or P231.7 billion from P121.7 billion in 2015.
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