NSCB Reports: 27.9% of Filipinos Live Below Poverty Line

Filipino Poverty Line

The National Statistical Coordination Board released the poverty incidence report on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 through NSCB Secretary General Jose Ramon Albert in a press conference. Based upon the report, the country’s poverty incidence stood at 27.9% in ther first semester of 2012, virtually unchanged from the same period in 2006 and 2009. The report … Read more