The government incurred a wider budget deficit in July as state spending grew faster than revenues, Treasury bureau data showed on Wednesday.

The month’s P86.4-billion shortfall was wider than the P54.3-billion and P50.5-billion gaps respectively posted in June and a year earlier.

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