PH shows no improvement in HDI ranking

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STILL POOR. Filipino families resort to begging on the streets. Photo by AFP

Despite gains it has made on the economic front, the Philippines remained at 114th globally for the 5th straight year in the Human Development Index (HDI) released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on March 15. The HDI is a key indicator of citizens’ state of health, education, and income, among others. In the 2013 Human Development Report titled “The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World,” the UNDP said the Philippines’ HDI score has been improving in the past 30 years. But its score — 0.654 — is still slightly below the East Asia and the Pacific regional average of 0.683.


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