THE next administration will need good governance to be able to continue the Aquino administration’s poverty reduction efforts, according to officials of several government agencies.

Last Friday, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) announced that the country’s official poverty incidence has eased to 26.3 percent in the first half of 2015, down from 28.6 percent registered in 2009.

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