Youths are pictured at at a slum area in Baseco, Tondo city, metro Manila MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 15.5% last year from 18.1% in 2021, with rising food prices ...

While NGOs and charity groups have mission statements that claim to uplift the lives of impoverished families, often ...

Half of Filipino families perceive themselves as poor, according to a survey from the Social Weather Survey published.

Senator Jinggoy Estrada has filed a measure seeking to expand the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) and increase cash ...

"We must emphasize the urgent need to bridge the gap between aspiration and reality through a recalibration of the government ...

MANILA, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 22.4% or 25.24 million people in the first half of 2023, the government's statistics agency said on Friday, from 23.7% in the same ...

A new book by UNICEF and the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) highlights that one in four Filipino children remains stunted, calling for smarter, targeted investments in maternal ...

MOUNT DIWATA, Philippines — Too poor to afford school beyond fourth grade in the southern Philippines, 19-year-old Johnny Buyo walked away from home six months ago to join the communist rebellion — ...

HOW we understand and measure poverty has evolved. From early income-based definitions, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s ...

JUAN dela Cruz and 20 of his neighbors in a remote village in southern Mindanao are rejoicing. They sell their mangoes every year to an ethical enterprise and receive high prices from them; they also ...

The FINANCIAl — MANILA, May 30, 2018 – With solid economic fundamentals, the Philippines is well-placed to speed up poverty reduction. The challenge is to provide more economic opportunities, which ...