Endnotes
1The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) defines the poverty line as the cost of basic food and nonfood
requirements (valued in pesos). In the Philippine official methodology, the poverty line may be viewed as
the minimum income required to meet the food requirements and other non-food basic needs (NSCB, 1997).
2The annual per capita rural poverty line in the Philippines in 2001 was 11,255 pesos (NSCB, 2004).
3Refer to Appendix II [ PDF 54KB | 3 page ] for more detailed information on changes in household assets.
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There are [1] comment(s) for this entry. Post a comment. - Cris Sales
(posted 10 February 2011 / 04:28:54 PM)
In other words, CARP did in fact improve the lives of the prople in the Agrarian Reform Communities.
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