Increases in consumer prices last year and the impact of Super Typhoon Yolanda have raised the poverty level among Filipinos in the first half of 2014 to 25.8 percent from 24.6 percent a year earlier, the latest official survey shows.

The Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS) released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Friday said the estimated figures refer to the proportion of people below the poverty line to the total population during the period.

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