Poverty hardly changed since 2003

The National Statistics Coordination Board (NSCB) said on Friday that the country’s poverty rate since 2003 has not been improving significantly, as the number of above-poverty line individuals who become poor is almost equal to those moving out of poverty.

In the agency’s Beyond the Numbers analysis, NSCB Secretary-General Jose Ramon Albert said that overall poverty “did not seem to change” through the years, because the numbers of people getting out of poverty and going into poverty are almost the same.