A Filipino non-government organization has named 10 provinces as the poorest places of the Philippines in a "national poverty map" it published this week.
Northern Samar and Masbate provinces in central Philippines, and Sulu island province in the south, are the poorest provinces in Philippines, according to the National Poverty Map 2007 prepared by the Peace and Equity Foundation.
The foundation said the three provinces had the "most pronounced conditions of poverty" among the country's 81 provinces according to its development index which is based on various government poverty indicators, including the lack of housing, access to clean water, sanitation facilities, incidence of malnutrition, and income level.
Following Northern Samar, Sulu and Masbate, at the low end of the development index were Basilan, Western Samar, Tawi-Tawi, Maguindanao, Sarangani, Zamboanga Del Norte, and Negros Oriental, all of them located in central and southern Philippines.
The foundation started its poverty scanning program in 2003 to identify priority areas for its poverty reduction program.
The scanning identified 28 priority provinces based on official data on income, health, education, and other top socio-economic indicators. From the data, it came up with the national poverty map, the first in the country.
Source: Xinhua
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