Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Youths are pictured at at a slum area in Baseco, Tondo city, metro Manila MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

THE government remains optimistic about bringing down poverty to single-digit levels by 2028 even after lowering its economic growth targets. Slower growth often poses difficulties for poverty ...

According to the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), middle-income households in the country are those with ...

Pope Francis on Friday demanded leaders in the Philippines end "scandalous social inequalities", hitting out at corruption in a nation where tens of millions of Catholics endure brutal poverty. The ...

MANILA (Reuters) - Armed with gloves, rubber boots and a rake, "Mangrove Warrior" Willer Gualva, 68, comes to Freedom Island in the Philippines almost every day to stop it being engulfed by trash. No ...

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 ...

As developing countries, like the Philippines, grow their economies and lift millions out of poverty, they may also experience growing inequality. This is reflected in the report, "Overcoming Poverty ...