Currency depreciation adds more than P70B to govt obligations

The Philippine government’s outstanding debt rose in April from a year earlier as the weak peso boosted the value of the dollar and other currency-denominated obligations, Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) data showed on Wednesday.

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