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  2. Income inequality in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    According to World Bank Country Director Motoo Konishi, the Philippines had become a "rising tiger" in East Asia. However, at the same time, during the 2010–2011 fiscal year, the increase in the wealth of the richest families in the Philippines, amounting to 47.39%, comprised 76.5% of the GDP increase for that year. [ 4 ]

  3. List of countries by income equality - Wikipedia

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    List of countries by income equality. World map of income inequality Gini coefficients by country. Based on World Bank data ranging from 1992 to 2020. [1] This is a list of countries or dependencies by income inequality metrics, including Gini coefficients. The Gini coefficient is a number between 0 and 1, where 0 corresponds with perfect ...

  4. Poverty in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Poverty in the Philippines. Share of population in extreme poverty (1981–2019) In 2023, official government statistics reported that the Philippines had a poverty rate of 15.5%, [1][2] (or roughly 17.54 million Filipinos), significantly lower than the 49.2 percent recorded in 1985 through years of government poverty reduction efforts. [3]

  5. List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty

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    The data is from the most recent year available from the World Bank API. [1] [5] [6] As differences in price levels across the world evolve, the global poverty line has to be periodically updated to reflect these changes. The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022.

  6. The Philippines and the World Bank - Wikipedia

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    According to World Bank data, the Philippines is considered to be a "lower middle income" country, [5] defined as countries that have a per capita GNI between $1,026 and $3,995. [6] As of 2018, by gross domestic product Purchasing Power Parity (GDP PPP), the Philippines is ranked 27th in the world with a GDP PPP of 952,967 international dollars ...

  7. Income inequality metrics - Wikipedia

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    Income inequality metrics. Income inequality metrics or income distribution metrics are used by social scientists to measure the distribution of income and economic inequality among the participants in a particular economy, such as that of a specific country or of the world in general. While different theories may try to explain how income ...

  8. List of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development ...

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    The IHDI, estimated for the world and specific countries, captures the losses in human development due to inequality in health, education and income. Losses in all three dimensions vary across countries, ranging from just a few percent (Czech Republic, Slovenia) up to over 40% (Comoros, Angola). Overall loss takes into account all three dimensions.

  9. Measuring poverty - Wikipedia

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    The World Bank defines poverty in absolute terms. The bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than US$1.90 per day. [2] , and moderate poverty as less than $3.10 a day. It has been estimated that in 2008, 1.4 billion people had consumption levels below US$1.25 a day and 2.7 billion lived on less than $2 a day.