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The Food and Nutrition Research Institute on Thursday pointed their fingers to the Philippine Statistics Authority in the setting of the amount on National Economic Development Authority's P64-a-day per person "food poor" threshold.
Zubiri was responding to the question of Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III, who asked, "Is the FNRI the source of the figure of NEDA when NEDA reached the figure of around P64 per day?"During the Senate finance committee budget deliberations in August, NEDA Secretary Arsenio Balisacan said a monthly food threshold for a family of five is 9,581 pesos.This means, individuals who spend P64 below for three meals a day are considered "food poor.
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