Aquino Legacy: More poor Filipinos in the last 5 years
Aquino Legacy: More poor Filipinos in the last 5 years
Research group IBON said that the growing number of poor Filipinos in the country today debunks the Aquino administration’s claims that its successful poverty alleviation strategy would be one of its achievements that must be continued by the succeeding administration.
The group delivered its assessment of the Aquino administration’s five years in office in its Birdtalk yesterday at the University of the Philippines School of Economics.
Using an altered methodology based on very low standards resulting in only Php52 as the official poverty line, government statistics counted 23.8 million poor Filipinos in 2012. The Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS) in the first semester of 2014 counted 25.8% of the population as poor, higher than the 24.6% poverty level in the same period the year before.
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