A country’s poverty rate (the percentage of a country’s population living below the officially estimated poverty line) is a ...

More fundamental structural change of the country’s political system is needed to achieve broad-based prosperity over the long term.

Philippine democracy delivers high voter turnout but weak development. Explore how governance gaps and institutional failures ...

The Philippines has made progress in more than half of the Sustainable Development Goals, but has deteriorated in terms of ...

Poverty incidence in Western Visayas dropped to 13.7 percent in 2023 from 17.2 percent in 2021, surpassing its pre-pandemic ...

Banish the thought that the World Bank's classification of the Philippines as an “upper-middle-income” economy is the silver ...

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will begin the rollout of its cash assistance under the expanded ...

The Philippines has officially hit upper-middle income, a milestone that took nearly four decades in the making. The next ...

The government's expanded United Package for Livelihoods, Industry, Food, and Transport (UPLIFT) program will also cover ...

THE Philippines faces recurring challenges every year, ranging from typhoons, earthquakes and volcanic eruption to unresolved social issues such as poverty, food insecurity, unemployment and unequal ...

The Philippines is now classified as an upper-middle income country, following an upgrade by the World Bank in its latest ...

On July 1, 2026, the World Bank reclassified the Philippines as an upper middle-income country, or UMIC, citing a gross national income per capita of $4,850. While policymakers celebrated the ...