A pretty picture of poverty

It’s a pretty headline that should serve the Duterte administration well, although it refers to a period before he became President of the nation of more than 100 million people: Poverty drops to 21.6% in 2015.

Official data shows “a statistically significant decrease between 2012 and 2015” in the so-called poverty incidence among Filipinos during those two years under the administration of then-President Benigno Aquino 3rd.