COTABATO CITY—Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) posted the largest decline in family poverty incidence among the country’s 18 regions, with the rate falling from 26 percent in 2023 to 12.8 percent in 2025, according to data released on Aug. 26, 2026 by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). The 13.2-percentage-point drop was
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