SOKOTO, Nigeria — Maryam Aminu was hardly surprised when the last of her six children was diagnosed with malnutrition in ...

This year marks the golden anniversary of the book “Measuring Philippine Development,” published in 1976 by the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP), the hefty 593-page final report of its ...

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

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

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said it will begin distributing cash assistance under the ...

The number of working Filipino children, including child laborers, ages five to 17, inched up by 0.8 percent to about 868,540 in 2025, the Philippine ...

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

US President Donald Trump looks on after signing an executive order to drastically shrink two national monuments in Utah, ...

GROWING up, I always considered our family to belong to the working class: we were neither poor nor wealthy. For me, rich people were those who owned vast tracts of land or operated large business ...

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

Donita Nose recalled growing up in extreme poverty before finding success in show business. The comedian paid tribute to her ...

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