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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A UNDP and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative report revealed that 3.9% of Filipinos—or 4.47 million people—are “multidimensionally poor,” with the largest deprivations coming from ...

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

MANILA (Reuters) - Armed with gloves, rubber boots and a rake, "Mangrove Warrior" Willer Gualva, 68, comes to Freedom Island in the Philippines almost every day to stop it being engulfed by trash. No ...

In teeming Manila, where poverty runs deep and millions lack adequate shelter, some of the living have found refuge among the ...

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 ...

MANILA, March 5 (Reuters) - The Philippines' poor are expanding by around 1.3 million people every year, as rising food prices and sluggish wage growth mean that more families cannot afford to feed ...