The country’s foreign debt stock grew $1 billion in the third quarter of this year to $76.6 billion from a year earlier, but the annual rate of growth slowed from the first two quarters of 2016.

The year-on-year increase in the third quarter was traced to foreign exchange revaluation and non-resident investment in Philippine debt papers, central bank data showed over the weekend.

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