STATE infrastructure and capital spending fell to P59.7 billion in March on account of the limitations of the reenacted budget the government was forced to operate on early this year, according to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).
In a statement over the weekend, the Budget department said the amount was a 5.7-percent decrease from P63.4 billion in the same month in 2018, even as first-quarter spending rose by 13.4 percent year-on-year to P178.1 billion.
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