THE work of reducing poverty in the land is like letting drops of water fall on a rock. You hope to make a crack, but you do not know when. Such is the dilemma facing the administration of President ...

I had no advance hint of last Thursday’s Inquirer headline, “SWS: Self-Rated Poverty at 63%, highest since ’03” (Inquirer.net ...

"What do you cry about during therapy ... a billion-dollar industry in the Philippines, now the world's largest-known source of such exploitation. Grinding poverty, high-speed internet access ...

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has pushed 100 million more workers into poverty, the United Nations (UN) said Wednesday, saying working hours have decreased and access to good-quality jobs has ...

She said informal waste workers were excluded from discussions on the Philippines’ extended producer responsibility (EPR) rules. The government passed a law in 2022 that holds plastic packaging makers ...