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Remittances helping reduce poverty – Bangko Sentral study

INTERNATIONAL money transfers from foreign workers to their families at home reduce poverty in developing economies, with stronger cash inflows linked to declines in poverty incidence, depth and ...
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NCR poverty line at P20,000; families elsewhere say they need P12,000 to survive — SWS

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino families say they now need at least P12,000 monthly to stay out of poverty, with those in Metro Manila placing the threshold even higher at P20,000, the latest Social ...