“IT’S VERY strange that while inflation increased, hunger and self-rated poverty decreased…
These are not government figures, these are figures from the private sector.”
So said Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, referencing the Social Weather Stations’ fist-quarter report, which showed that the number of self-rated poor families dropped to 29 percent in March 2018 from 32 percent in December 2017.
“So, I guess to some extent, the programs of President Duterte (‘Build, Build, Build’ and the TRAIN Law) are working,” chest-thumped the finance chief.
Concluding: “The average Filipino has more money in his pocket and, in a sense, is better off .” Strange.
Very strange. The only valid reality in Dominguez’s delusory assertions.
