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 ...

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 ...

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

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 Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) on Thursday underscored the role of reclamation in easing flooding, reducing ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

ASA Philippines Foundation, a leading microfinance institution dedicated to poverty alleviation, has reached over 42,000 ...

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 ...