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 ...

Despite a modest drop in its poverty rate, Bukidnon remains among the poorest provinces in the Philippines, with 27 percent ...

The poor, or the bottom 30 percent of the population, spend most of their limited resources on everyday essentials such as food, house rent, and education. This was ...

CALBAYOG, PhilippinesCALBAYOG, Philippines — Delfina Guiwan’s heart was pounding as she snuck back to her village, now abandoned and eerily quiet, in the fertile foothills of gently erupting Mayon ...

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 ...

Francisco Sales believes he could have saved the lives of his wife Gloria Operario and their unborn child during childbirth three years ago if he had enough money. Gloria had a risky third pregnancy ...

PSA-CAR RD Villafe Alibuyog presents the 2023 Full Year Official Poverty Statistics in Cordillera on Oct. 16, 2024. BAGUIO CITY (PIA) — The poverty incidence in the Cordillera Administrative Region ...

Alcasid; X/TheRVFriends Regine Velasquez once again expressed her dismay toward the Philippine government as she stressed how ...

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 ...

CALBAYOG, Philippines (AP) — Delfina Guiwan’s heart was pounding as she snuck back to her village, now abandoned and eerily quiet, in the fertile foothills of gently erupting Mayon volcano in the ...