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The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) on April 25 assured Philippine President Benigno Aquino II that there is no reason to doubt the 1st semester poverty statistics. On Rappler’s #talkthursday, NSCB Secretary General Jose Ramon Albert said the numbers merely pointed to the percentage of the population of a country that is poor. The NSCB poverty data showed that poverty incidence in the first 6 months of 2012 was virtually unchanged from 2006 and 2009. The President has said he doubts whether the latest poverty numbers are reliable given that the population numbers have not been as accurate prior to 2010, when the Aquino administration assumed.
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