Gov’t keeps poverty reduction target
By Michelle V. RemoThe government is keeping its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing poverty incidence in the country to 16.6 percent by 2015.
The government is keeping its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing poverty incidence in the country to 16.6 percent by 2015.
Poverty statistics released recently must have shocked even P-Noy against the backdrop and drum beatings of a healthy and robust economy, stock market at all-time highs, and pronouncements of an inclusive growth and not leaving a single Filipino behind.
The Asian Development Bank said Asia-Pacific countries, including the Philippines, are expected to miss several of 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The Asian Development Bank is urging the Philippines and other countries in Asia to address the widening inequality between rich and poor, in terms of income and access to education, health and other services.
The Philippines has failed to make headway in cutting rampant poverty, with more than one in four citizens deemed poor despite the country’s economic growth, according to census figures released Tuesday.
The World Bank has set a goal of eliminating extreme poverty around the world over the next 17 years.
Poverty is a tell-tale sign of the failure of governments in instituting reforms for the betterment of its citizens.
In my past advocacies, I discussed the development impact of tree crops in Southeast Asia: How a well-managed and focused development of cocoa, coffee, oil palm and rubber lifted millions of rural poor out of poverty and energized the domestic markets for goods and services.
How do the poor fare in these times of strong economic growth, solid fundamentals, and a surging stock market?
I was elated to know that P-Noy is going to South Korea for a visit.
A lot of people’s lives would have been saved, if not for the steep cost of hospitalizaton. There are, perhaps, a million tragic stories that can prove how those who have been afflicted with ailments and diseases have succumbed to death all because they could not afford to buy the medicines prescribed to them.
The number of people from poor households who joined the ranks of the employed had increased, but this development did not put a dent on poverty in the country, according to the Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics (BLES).
