MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is seeking to boost the budget for next year by almost 10% to sustain the nation’s efforts to fight the pandemic.
The president will ask Congress to approve a national budget of 4.5 trillion pesos (US$91.6bil), 9.9% more than this year’s, the Department of Budget said in a statement.
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