Philippines Progress Report on the Millennium Development Goals 2010

The report indicates that a significant proportion of population has remained poor over the past two decades and that poverty incidence among the population even worsened from 30.0 percent in 2003 to 32.9 percent in 2006. There is thus this need to intensify the implementation of effective antipoverty interventions to improve the welfare and income status of the poor and the vulnerable groups. This report also highlights the impact of recent developments that continually affect our poverty reduction efforts, such as the food and fuel price hikes in the first half of 2008, the global financial crisis, and climate change.