THE government's budget balance reversed to a deficit in November as spending outpaced revenue, the Bureau of the Treasury reported on Thursday.

The P213-billion shortfall — from earnings of P338.3 billion and expenditures of P551.3 billion — reversed from October's P6.3-billion surplus and was also wider than last year's P93.3-billion deficit.

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