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Covid pandemic worsens poverty in the Philippines, leaving millions more impoverished
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube About 2.3 million more people in the Philippines have been pushed into poverty between 2018 and 2021, largely due to the economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the country’s statistics agency. Recently inaugurated President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr aims to slash the poverty rate to nine per cent by 2028 by focusing on fully…