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 ...

"We must emphasize the urgent need to bridge the gap between aspiration and reality through a recalibration of the government ...

Half of Filipino families (50%), or about 14.2 million, consider themselves poor in September 2025, slightly higher than the ...

A Philippine military helicopter crashed during search and rescue operations, killing all six people on board.

Philippine bishops have urged Catholics and others to demand accountability and transparency from government authorities for ...

ASA Philippines Foundation, a leading microfinance institution dedicated to poverty alleviation, has reached over 42,000 undernourished children through its flagship “Sustansya at Pag-ASA” Child ...

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 ...

The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi in the Philippines climbed past 90 on Wednesday as the devastating impact on hard-hit ...

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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 15.5% last year from 18.1% in 2021, with rising food prices limiting the reduction in the number of poor, the government's statistics agency ...