THE government closed 2020 with a huge debt — P9.79 trillion — equivalent to 54.5 percent of the total economy, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) said.

It said the December 2020 amount was higher by 3.3percent or P339.05 billion than the P10.13 trillion in November “primarily due to net redemptions of domestic loans.”

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