THE outstanding debt of the national government rose to P5.98 trillion in July, up 2.3 percent or P135 billion from a year earlier as the peso value of foreign obligations rose on currency fluctuations, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) said over the weekend.

Month-on-month, the government’s outstanding debt surged by 0.6 percent from P5.94 trillion in June.

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