MANILA: President Gloria Arroyo acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the Philippines was now in a “fiscal crisis,” as economists warned of an Argentinian-type debt default within the next three years.
“We are already in the midst of a fiscal crisis and we have to face it squarely,” Arroyo said in a written statement.
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