Deficit grew by 57.50 percent in first month of Duterte presidency

THE Duterte administration recor-ded in July, its first month in office, a budget deficit of P50.7 billion, which was 57.50 percent larger than July 2015’s P32.19 billion or 12.19 percent more than P45.19-billion deficit incurred in the previous month.

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