Even if the Philippines is likely to miss its growth targets for 2024, it still remains on track in reducing poverty and taming inflation while its economy continues to fare better than its neighbors ...

In a nation boasting one of the lowest unemployment rates in recent years, the rise of self-rated poverty to record-breaking levels presents a perplexing paradox. This is the reality the Philippines ...

For 2023, the poverty threshold—the minimum income required for a family to meet the basic food and non-food requirements—was set at a national average of P13,873 per month, lower than the ...

A serious risk for the nation is the institutionalization of the use of ayuda for patronage and vote-buying. Anything that benefits the political elite in this country quickly becomes entrenched.

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The poverty incidence in Cebu Province ... Research Institute (FNRI); prices of food items, and family income from the PSA data. In Poverty Statistics, PSA defines ...

Using the Family Income and Expenditure Surveys of 2003, 2006 and 2009, matched with rainfall data from 43 rainfall stations in the Philippines, the report found that droughts decrease food ...

Millions of students across the Philippines have returned to the classroom ... and household-income shocks had the biggest impact on learning poverty," said organisation UNICEF in a statement.

MANILA: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr ... would support economic growth and reduce poverty. The spending is higher than a projection of 6.18 trillion pesos announced earlier this ...

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) reiterates its call for the House of Representatives to immediately pass ...