SWS: Poverty 'drops' to 9.1M households at end-2011

- (GMA 7 Breaking News) - 4 months ago...

Fewer Filipinos considered themselves poor at the end of 2011, with pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS) saying the decline in self-rated poverty neared a record low. According to a report of BusinessWorld, the December 3-7, 2011 survey saw 45 percent of respondents (or equivalent to around 9.1 million households) saying they were “mahirap.” ...

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