This year’s budget deficit will likely fall short of target, a Fitch unit said as it also warned that the Philippine economy appeared to be overheating.
“The government is likely to underspend its budget in 2019. . . We at Fitch Solutions forecast the Philippines’ budget deficit as a share of GDP (gross domestic product) to come in at 2.9 percent,” it said in a report released on Tuesday.
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