Duterte signs EO on 25-year plan to eliminate poverty

Aaron Lozada, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/10/15/20161013-duterte-business-con-mnib-13.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">President Rodrigo Duterte stresses a point in his speech during the 42nd Philippine Business Conference and Expo at Marriott Hotel in Pasay City on October 13. <em>King Rodriguez, Malacanang Photo</em></div></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte has signed Executive Order (EO) No. 5, which adopts &quot;Ambisyon Natin 2040&quot;, the 25-year long-term vision of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) to wipe out poverty and hunger in the country.</p><p>&quot;The Philippine government hereby aims to triple real per capita incomes and eradicate hunger and poverty by 2040, if not sooner,&quot; the EO read.</p><p>The EO also seeks to identify a set of milestones that will guide the successive medium-term development plans of the Philippines.</p><p>Under the EO, four Philippine Development Plans (PDPs) will be crafted and implemented until 2040.</p><p>These PDPs are anchored on Ambisyon Natin 2040, which proposes that &quot;By 2040, the Philippines shall be a prosperous, predominantly middle-class society where no one is poor. Our peoples will enjoy long and healthy lives, are smart and innovative, and will live in a high-trust society.&quot;</p><p>According to NEDA, this ensures sustainability and consistency of strategies, policies, programs and projects across political administrations.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/10/15/eo-5-1.jpg"/></figure></div><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/10/15/eo-5-2.jpg"/></figure></div>

<p>President Rodrigo Duterte has signed Executive Order (EO) No. 5, which adopts "AmbisyonNatin 2040", the 25-year long-term vision of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) to wipe out poverty and hunger in the country.</p>

President Rodrigo Duterte has signed Executive Order (EO) No. 5, which adopts "AmbisyonNatin 2040", the 25-year long-term vision of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) to wipe out poverty and hunger in the country.

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Duterte signs EO on 25-year plan to eliminate poverty

Duterte signs EO on 25-year plan to eliminate poverty

Aaron Lozada,

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Published Oct 15, 2016 08:21 AM PHT

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Updated Oct 15, 2016 07:57 PM PHT

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