Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, November 20) — Most of the poor in Southeast Asia live in the Philippines and Indonesia.
That’s according to a publication launched by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The report entitled, “ASEAN-China-UNDP Report on Financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in ASEAN: Strengthening Integrated National Financing Frameworks to Deliver the 2030 Agenda,” was launched Friday in Jakarta.
It notes that while extreme poverty was down across the region from 2005 to 2013, many are still prone to slipping back to poverty.
An estimated 36 million people in the region are living below the poverty line – almost 90 percent of them in the country and in neighboring Indonesia.
A statement from ASEAN said it is important for the organization’s member states to identify how to finance poverty eradication programs in order to realize the SDGs and ASEAN Vision 2025.
ASEAN 2025 envisions a politically cohesive, economically integrated, socially responsible, and a truly people-oriented, people-centred, and rules-based ASEAN.
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The publication points out the roles of all sectors in financing development goals among ASEAN members.
