THE PERCENTAGE of Filipinos considering themselves poor hit a fresh record low last quarter, according to results of a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey that signaled a good start for the new Duterte administration’s push to slash official poverty rate to 16-17% by the time it steps down in mid-2022 from 26.3% as of the first half of 2015. Read the full story.

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