here we have if you can live like a poor filipino, you can live on £75 a month and that is with your asawa and 3 kids
The National Statistical Coordination Board said the latest nationwide family income survey showed that a total of 4.7 million families — or 27.6 million Filipinos — were considered poor in 2006, up 16 percent from four million in 2003.
It said incidence of poor families rose to 26.9 percent in 2006 from 24.4 percent in 2003, but remained below the 27.5 percent figure for 2000, the year before President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was swept to power.
The agency estimates the poverty threshold — the monthly income that a family of five requires to meet basic needs — rose to 6,274 pesos ($154) in 2006, from 5,129 pesos ($126) in 2003 and 4,774 pesos ($117) in 2000.
