{"id":29929,"date":"2014-10-28T14:19:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T06:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=29929"},"modified":"2014-10-28T17:31:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T09:31:35","slug":"palace-fight-vs-poverty-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/28\/palace-fight-vs-poverty-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace: Fight vs poverty continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13207\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13207\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/squatters-informal-settlers-poverty-manila.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13207\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/squatters-informal-settlers-poverty-manila-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Informal settlers in Metro Manila. Saiko3p \/ Shutterstock\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Informal settlers in Metro Manila. Saiko3p \/ Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Amid the growing poverty incidence, as noted by a nationwide survey, Malaca\u00f1ang said that the administration continues to focus on programs that aim to alleviate poverty in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This, according to them is regardless of the poll results on the country\u2019s self-rated poverty incidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur fight against poverty continues. These surveys are helpful, but we note also that we continue to address this part of the concerns not just overnight, on a very consistent basis and in a long-term manner,\u201d presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr., meanwhile, cited figures to counter the SWS survey results.<\/p>\n<p>Among the figures cited is the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) of the Philippine Statistics Authority indicating that \u201cpoverty incidence eased\u201d to 24.9 percent in 2013 compared to 27.9 percent in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same FIES also showed subsistence incidence or the proportion of extremely poor Filipino individuals who could not afford to meet basic food requirements, also declined during the period from 13.4 percent in 2012 to 10.7 percent in 2013,\u201d Coloma noted.<\/p>\n<p>Lacierda, however clarified that they are not questioning the methodology of the SWS but said that they believe that the government\u2019s own survey is more comprehensive as it has more respondents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Amid the growing poverty incidence, as noted by a nationwide survey, Malaca\u00f1ang said that the administration continues to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[4154,611],"class_list":["post-29929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-palace","tag-poverty","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}