Duterte signs EO to address poverty
President Duterte has signed Executive Order No. 5 adopting the National Economic and Development Authority’s “Ambisyon Natin 2040” developments goals to “create a predominantly middle-class society where no one is poor” in 24 years.
The program also envisioned Filipinos to “live long and healthy lives; be smart and innovative, and live in a high-trust society.”
The concrete goals of the program is to triple the country’s per capita income and wipe out hunger and poverty by 2040 or sooner. —GIL CABACUNGAN
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