ADVERTISEMENTBut there’s a simpler way to define good governance, as stated by Fr. Based on data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the poverty incidence in 2021 was 18.1 percent, or 3.50 million households, way higher than the 16.7 percent, or 3 million households in 2018. ADVERTISEMENT“The target means that poverty incidence has to be cut by around 1.5 percentage points per year from the 18.1 percent in 2021. Based on SWS data, there are so many poor Filipino households, with the percentage of “self-rated poor” households even higher than the government’s official poverty statistics. Back in the first quarter of 2022, there were 10.9 million self-rated poor households.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 06, 2023 00:44 UTC