THE government has clinched another concessional loan deal from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), involving $2 billion to fund an elevated railway project aimed at decongesting traffic in Metro Manila.

Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima and JICA Chief Representative Noriaki Niwa signed on Friday an official development assistance (ODA) loan agreement for the first phase, or north segment, of the North-South Railways Project.

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