THE national government debt has surpassed the P12-trillion mark at the start of the year as domestic and external debt ballooned, numbers provided by the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) on Friday showed.
The P12.03-trillion outstanding debt at the end of January 2022 was up 2.6 percent, or P301.12 billion, from the end of December 2021's P11.72 trillion, the BTr noted in a statement, "due to the net availment of both domestic and external debt."
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