MANILA: The Philippines posted a smaller-than-targeted budget deficit in the first quarter of the year as it spent less than planned, casting a shadow over the country’s growth outlook for the year.
Government officials are banking on higher expenditure this year to boost economic activity after a spending scandal in 2014 pulled back public investment and slowed growth.
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