The budget deficit narrowed in November as state spending grew slower than revenues, the government reported on Tuesday.

The month’s P8.6-billion shortfall was lower than the P21.8-billion and P19.1-billion deficits respectively recorded in October and a year earlier, Treasury bureau data showed.

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