The target will be to lower the poverty
incidence to 14 percent by the end of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s
term, but at the current development it
is "possible for poverty incidence to further drop to "10 to 12
percent" by 2022, significantly higher than that of projected.
Barely
two years to go before Duterte ends his six year term, his administration is on
full steam ahead in making sure that he can giving all Filipinos as promised
during the campaign a “comfortable life.”
Weeks
ago the President made sure the two giant water concessionaires feels his brunt
when he found out the Filipino people is at the disadvantage by the water concessions
agreement entered into with government.
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (PNA) |
He
just signed the Magna Carta of the Poor geared to alleviate poverty among
the citizenry.
As
per data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that some 5.9
million Filipinos were pulled out of poverty in 2018, as poverty incidence fell
to 16.6 percent from 23.3 percent in 2015.
“With
the continued adoption of the DutertEnomics and socio-economic reforms, the
poverty rate will be continuously reduced,” Presidential Communications
Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar said
The
Magna Carta of the Poor (Republic Act No. 11291), signed on April 12 mandates
the State "to adopt an area-based, sectoral and focused intervention to
poverty alleviation where every poor Filipino must be empowered to meet the
minimum basic need through the partnership of the Government and the basic
sectors".
The
President also signed last April 17, institutionalizing the Pantawid Pamilyang
Pilipino Program (4Ps) (R.A. No. 11310), the national poverty reduction
strategy and human capital investment program that provides conditional cash
transfer to poor households for a maximum period of seven years to improve the
health, nutrition and education aspects of their lives.
Pres.
Duterte signed the Universal Healthcare Act of 2019 (R.A. 11223) which
automatically enrolls all Filipinos under the government’s health insurance
program.
Maternity
leave of female workers in the country was
also extended from 60 to 105 days with full pay as mandated by (R.A. 11210) “All
working mothers in the government and private sector are guaranteed with 105
days of paid maternity leave credits, with 7 days transferable to fathers while
an additional 15 days of paid leave will be granted to single mothers,
according to the law.”
Malasakit
Centers (Malasakit Center Law (R.A. 11463) was
signed also into law, which expands the accessibility to the government’s
medical and financial healthcare services’ through the Malasakit Centers, that
will be built in all public hospitals in the country.
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