The government’s outstanding debt expanded to a record-high P10.02 trillion at end-October as domestic and foreign borrowings rose, according to the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr).

Latest Treasury bureau data showed on Friday that the amount was a 7.03-percent or P658.81-billion increase from P9.36 trillion at end-September.

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