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                    [Title] => Inflation is Eating Our Lunch
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Here’s the puzzle: why, amid rising growth, is there also rising poverty? The latest Annual Poverty Indicator Survey suggests that poverty incidence among individuals rose by 1.2% from the first half of 2013 to the first half of 2014. Does this mean that government anti-poverty policies have failed altogether?

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133911 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462001 [AuthorName] => Lila Ramos Shahani [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1411333 [Title] => Noy: LRT, MRT fare hike unpopular but long overdue [Summary] =>

President Aquino defended yesterday the increase in fares of the Light Rail Transits 1 and 2 and Metro Rail Transit 3 despite opposition from various sectors, saying he was willing to take the bullet for an unpopular but long overdue decision to improve train services.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20150110/pnoy-aquino-8.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1317623 [Title] => Poverty rate eases to 24.9 pct in 1st half of 2013 [Summary] =>

Poverty incidence among Filipinos eased to 24.9 percent in the first semester of 2013, from 27.9 percent posted in the same period in 2012, the local statistics agency said today.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-29 21:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 809729 [Title] => What exactly ails the Philippine education system? (Part 1) [Summary] =>

The Philippine education system is plagued with problems from the basic level until the tertiary level, and although previous and present administrations took steps to reform the system, these reforms failed to improve the country’s education system.

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-25 23:59:02 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1223948 [AuthorName] => Cheryl M. Arcibal [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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