{"id":9906,"date":"2014-05-12T22:46:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=9906"},"modified":"2014-05-12T22:46:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:46:18","slug":"govt-not-relent-in-efforts-to-reduce-poverty-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/12\/govt-not-relent-in-efforts-to-reduce-poverty-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t not relent in efforts to reduce poverty: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9984\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9984\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/poverty-brazil-poor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9984\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/poverty-brazil-poor.jpg\" alt=\"File photo: Alessio Moiola \/ ShutterStock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/poverty-brazil-poor.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/poverty-brazil-poor-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo: Alessio Moiola \/ ShutterStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA (PNA) &#8212; The government will not relent in its efforts at reducing the poverty level in the country, said Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio Coloma.<\/p>\n<p>In a Palace press briefing on Monday, Coloma said that based on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the Philippines aims to reduce poverty rates by half to 16.5 percent in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Citing statistical data, he said poverty incidence in the country already declined to 24.9 percent in 2013 from 31 percent in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s poverty figure, however, was still higher than the MDG target to bring down poverty incidence to 16.5 percent next year, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKaya \u2018yon ang ating pinagsisikapang pag-ibayuhin na mabawasan pa. (We are maximizing our efforts to further lower the poverty rate),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Coloma said government agencies concerning poverty reduction and social protection are continuously working to bring down the number of poor people in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He also cited the 2014 National Budget, with bulk or 37 percent has been allotted to poverty reduction and social protection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKaya tinitiyak ko sa inyo na hindi nagpapabaya ang pamahalaan at ginagawang puspusan ang pagsisikap (I am assuring you that the government is not relent in its efforts),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA (PNA) &#8212; The government will not relent in its efforts at reducing the poverty level in the country, said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[978,343,611],"class_list":["post-9906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-malacanang","tag-philippines","tag-poverty","mauthors-leslie-d-venzon","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906","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=9906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}