Philippines Family Planning
Good news: two of every 1,000 previously poor Filipino families have risen above poverty from 2006 to 2009. Bad news: the total number of poor Filipinos rose by almost a million in the same period.
According to the latest poverty statistics released by the National Statistical Coordination Board, poverty incidence among families (or the ratio of poor fam…
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