A STRONGER dollar helped reduce the country's external debt last year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said late on Friday.

Money owed to foreign creditors fell by $2.02 billion to $137.63 billion by the end of December, down 1.4 percent from the $139.64 billion recorded three months earlier.

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