[ANALYSIS] On poverty lines and counting the poor

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Last April 10, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released estimates of poverty incidence in the first semester of 2018  (see Table 1), stating that the proportion of Filipinos in poverty is 21.0%, a reduction of 6.6 percentage points compared to the same period 3 years ago (then recorded at 27.6%).  ... via PK