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 ...

A UNDP and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative report revealed that 3.9% of Filipinos—or 4.47 million people—are ...

Philippine bishops have urged Catholics and others to demand accountability and transparency from government authorities for ...

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 ...

The latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealing that 55 percent of Filipino families—some 15.5 million households—consider themselves poor is a crucial alarm bell for the nation. This ...

A new book by UNICEF and the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) highlights that one in four Filipino ...

MANILA—The percentage of people living below the poverty line in the Philippines has narrowed only slightly, despite robust growth of the Philippine economy over the last few years, according to the ...

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 ...

Sources: Deininger and Squire, 1996, and Philippines, National Statistics Office, 1994. Although an improvement in income distribution is often accompanied by a decrease in the poverty rate (absent a ...

The country is hit by some 20 storms and typhoons a year, striking disaster-prone areas where millions live in poverty.