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                    [Title] => New political party to reform government
                    [Summary] => Here’s how bad things are in our country:


1. The poverty incidence is 34.2 per cent (Year 2000 figure). Thirty million Filipinos live on less than P23 a day.


2. About P150-billion, or one-fifth of the government’s national budget was lost to corruption. An international survey ranked the Philippines No. 9 in terms of corruption in a scale of 1-10 ("1" for the least corrupt;  "10" for the most corrupt).


                    [DatePublished] => 2002-09-19 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 134209
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                    [AuthorID] => 1804859
                    [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas
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New political party to reform government

By FROM THE STANDS | By Domini M. Torrevillas | September 19, 2002 - 12:00am

Here’s how bad things are in our country: 1. The poverty incidence is 34.2 per cent (Year 2000 figure). Thirty million Filipinos live on less than P23 a day. 2. About P150-billion, or one-fifth of the government’s...

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