total lgu spending increased from an average of of gdp during to about in the late s against of gdp in the oecd area in oecd b while the central governments still undertake major hard public infrastructure investment eg major roads ports airports lgus nonetheless have substantial expenditure responsibilities for instance in the environment sector eg solid waste disposal water supply systems seawalls and dikes drainage and sewerage flood control department of finance however lgus have very limited ambitions for funding infrastructure development oecd in metro cebu total expenditures reached around php billion in of total revenues most of expenditures went for general public services of total expenditures followed by social services and economic services