she belongs to the world's 1/3 poor and her total worth wealth equals the wealth of the world's richest 1%

she is Master Teacher 3 in Surigao (one of the country's 20 poorest provinces) and lives in a bungalow with concrete walls, a refrigerator, cable TV, and a flush toilet

she is a trust fund in the United States, a friend of Taylor Swift, and fails to secure Coachella tickets

she is an African American from the Bronx who sleeps in the subway

Welfare states subsidising the expenses of the poorer of the poor

Welfare states that tax citizens according to their income

Welfare states that respect free market policies yet regulate taxation by providing tax shelters for corporations and other profit oriented institutions

Welfare states that redistribute the wealth of high income and landed citizens among the people equitably

the cumulative proportion of gross domestic product

the cumulative proportion of gross national product

the cumulative proportion of per capita income

the cumulative proportion of realistic elasticity

expenditure/Palma

production/Palma

income/Lorenz

production/Lorenz

Palma ratio

Gini index

Lorenz curve

Corrado proportion

an average annual income per capita of 22,000 is considered middle class

an average family of five that lives on 10,000/week would mean that 9/10 Filipinos are poor

The Philippines poverty index on the world global scale shows that 5/10 Filipinos are in the global middle class

half of the population that helps feed the population are fisherfolk and poor

is to be conducted every six years (once every presidential cycle)

is to be conducted every four years (like the Olympics)

is to be conducted every two years (like the World Cup)

is conducted annually as a gauge of expenditure index

middle class income threshold (16k and above)

measure of self-rated poverty (42 million people)

absolute poverty for one who does not possess a pair

relative poverty for one who does not possess a pair