The deficit likely fell within the P279 billion target for 2012, the Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima said Monday.?
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The interagency Development Budget Coordinating Committee (DBCC) set a deficit ceiling of 2.6 percent of gross domestic product.
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"We?ve shown that we?ve been able to do it. We?re confident that 2012 will come in within 2.6 percent," Purisima noted.
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Because the Aquino administration has a wide fiscal space, the department sees the deficit falling within the ceiling of 2 percent of GDP from 2013 to 2016, according to the Finance chief.
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"We will ?stick to our medium-term fiscal consolidation program that we announced at the beginning of the Aquino administration, and that we?re very much within targets. For the deficit, we will have it at 2 percent ?and maintain it at 2 percent of GDP from 2013 onwards," Purisima said.
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The government closely monitors its fiscal position on a monthly basis, he added.
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Latest Finance Department data showed the deficit at P11.564 billion in November 2012, narrower by 47.4 percent from P22.003 billion a year earlier.
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The shortfall last November brought the 11-month budget gap to P127.3 billion, wider than the P96.254 billion a year earlier, and way below the full-year program of P279 billion.
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The 11-month represents only 45.6 percent of the full-year program. ? VS, GMA News
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