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 ...

MANILA, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 22.4% or 25.24 million people in the first half of 2023, the government's statistics agency said on Friday, from 23.7% in the same ...

MANILA—The percentage of people living below the poverty line in the Philippines has narrowed only slightly, despite robust growth of the Philippine economy over the last few years, according to the ...

The magnitude of the amounts involved in the current DPWH corruption investigations, the optics display of the cash, the luxury goods, and opulent lifestyles are staggering and scandalous.

House Speaker Martin Romualdez on Sunday called on the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to further expand its ‘Pag-Abot’ program that ...

Protesters have thrown rocks at police during a rally against government corruption in the Philippines. Tens of thousands ...

Let me start by extending our warmest greetings to Secretary Arsi Balisacan, NEDA Secretary; to our distinguished panelists, to the Representatives from the private sector, civil society, the academe ...

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 ...

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in the Philippine capital on Sunday to express their outrage over a corruption ...

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 ...