The national government ended 2016 with a P6.09 trillion debt, up 2.3 percent from a year earlier, with the dollar component boosted by the peso’s weakness during the period, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) said.
An analyst forecast that a weak peso could raise the level of national government’s debt further going forward.
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