​Can the Philippines end poverty? World Bank says yes, but only with urgent reforms THE Philippines has a historic ...

Implementing comprehensive reforms that address barriers to job creation and strengthen household resilience will help the ...

The report notes that around 61% of Filipinos face high exposure to climate-related disasters, making economic security even ...

THE Marcos administration is likely to miss its goal of reducing poverty to single-digit levels by 2028, with the World Bank ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Economy, Planning, and Development (DEPDev) on Tuesday, March 24, outlined several scenarios in the Philippines if fuel prices remain on an uptrend, with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...