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04-17-2007, 01:01 PM
inquirer At least 14.8 million Filipinos try to survive on less than $1 a day, accounting for 1.5 percent of the people in the world currently trapped in extreme poverty, according to latest World Bank estimates. But some 43 million in the Philippines, based on the country’s population in 2000, live on $2 a day, the less extreme international measure of poverty. Data from the World Development Indicators (WDI) 2007 showed that global poverty rates continued to fall in the first four years of the 21st century..., Read more. (http://newsinfo.inquirer.ne t/inquirerheadlines/nation/view_article.php?art icle_id=60778)