Malacañang on Sunday said the country can cope very well with the fresh strategies forged by world leaders to end poverty around the world by the year 2030, noting that the government has already embarked on massive poverty eradication programs even before the adoption by the United Nations of the new set of objective to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

“We join the UN in its efforts to address the problem of poverty. Under the leadership of President Benigno Aquino 3rd, we improved and further developed existing social programs, particularly the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps),” Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said in an interview over Radyo ng Bayan.

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