Poverty incidence in the Philippines may be reduced to single digits if economic growth is sustained over the next 15 years, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said.

“It is possible—a single-digit poverty rate—if economic growth will sustain the government’s social development program,” NEDA Deputy Director General Emmanuel Esguerra told reporters in a press briefing on Monday.

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