CONTRARY to Malacanang’s claim, Filipinos, particularly the poor among them, gained nothing from the just concluded Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, a Church leader and a political analyst said.

Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo, chairman of the public affairs committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), on Friday said 26 years after APEC was founded, some 1.7 billion people are still living in extreme poverty in the region.

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