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IN PH
Cai Ordinario
Who is poor?
The government considers a Filipino family poor
if monthly earnings are less than the poverty
threshold. In the 1st semester of 2012, poverty
threshold for a family of 5 was at P5,458 per
The
same
family
required
only P1,681 in 2006
month
to meet
basic
food needs.
and P2,042 in 2009 to leave the ranks of the
poor.
If non-food needs -- such as clothing, housing,
transportation, health, and education expenses,
and others -- are added to the threshold, cut off
in 2012 went up to P7,821 earnings a month.
Natural disasters like typhoons kept many poor
Filipinos below the poverty line. NSCB's Albert
said disasters were "a threat to development."
Income inequality
The income divide between the have's and havenot's remain wide, the data showed.
"We observe that the bottom 20% of families have
a share of about 6% of the total national income,
whereas, the upper 20% of income distribution,
have a share of nearly 50% of total national
income," Albert said.
"The total income of the top 20% of Pinoy families,
in other words, is approximately 8 times of the
total income of the bottom 20% of Filipino families
in the first semester of 2006, 2009, and 2012," he
added.
Income inequality
The NSCB explained that income gap measures
the amount of income required by the poor in
order to get out of poverty, in relation to the
poverty threshold itself.
This may be used as a hypothetical benchmark for
the amount needed to eradicate poverty as a
whole, assuming expenses are focused solely on
assistance rather than on targeting costs such as
operations and implementation.
SOURCES
http://www.rappler.com/business/27276-poorest-p
rovinces-philippines
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