($1 = 55.17 Philippine pesos)
(Reporting by Enrico Dela Cruz and Karen Lema
Editing by Ed Davies)
MANILA, March 1 (Reuters) - The Philippine government
posted a budget deficit of 1.6 trillion pesos ($29 billion) for
2022, with the gap in December hitting 378.4 billion pesos , the Bureau of the Treasury said in a statement on
Wednesday.
The 2022 gap was 3.4% lower than the 2021 shortfall and
within the 1.7 trillion pesos programme for the year, it said.
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