Government debt in January expanded by 5 percent from the year-earlier level as the weaker peso made it more expensive to repay foreign currency denominated debt.

The Bureau of Treasury (BTr) said that the government’s outstanding debt stood at P5.594 trillion as of end-January, up P259.27 billion from the P5.34 trillion level the previous year.

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