THE country's current account deficit narrowed in the first half of the year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported on Friday.

At $7.1 billion and equivalent to 3.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), the shortfall dropped by 17.8 percent from the $8.6 billion recorded a year earlier.

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