PH may miss 2015 poverty goal Manila Standard, 21 Aug The Philippines may miss its target of reducing poverty incidence by half between 1990 and 2015, the government’s chief economist said Wednesday. “We need to double or triple our efforts to meet the targets on income poverty, nutrition, dietary energy requirement, cohort and completion rates in elementary school, maternal mortality, access to reproductive health services, addressing gender equality in terms of political participation of women and prevalence of HIV and AIDS,” Economic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan said. Read more: goo.gl/tLPmaS
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:25:41 +0000
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