Across Asia: Philippines

Poverty 'unacceptable'

Poverty in the Philippines remains at an "unacceptable" level years after it joined dozens of other countries in pledging to reduce the number of impoverished people by half by 2015, a UN official said yesterday. One in three Filipinos lives on $1 a day, 5 million children remain out of school and 93 newborn babies and 11 mothers die each day - numbers that are still alarmingly high, said Salil Shetty, director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign.

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