MANILA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine government aims to reduce the country's poverty incidence to 13.2 percent or lower in 2025, National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Secretary ...

Self-rated poverty and hunger spiked in the last quarter of 2024, according to a survey conducted by the OCTA Research group.

The DSWD cannot do it by its lonesome but in close coordination with other agencies using a whole-of-government approach” The Philippine Development Plan ...

Poverty incidence in the country is expected to continue to go down following improvements in the labor market performance ...

Nearly half of Filipino households (approximately 13.2 million) consider themselves poor consider themselves poor, according ...

The fight against poverty has been long-drawn. The highest poverty rate came after the martial law regime. The country’s poverty index was at its worst at 44.2 percent in 1985 in a population of ...

According to the survey, self-rated poverty was highest in Mindanao at 76 percent, followed by the Visayas at 74 percent, Luzon outside Metro Manila at 55 percent, and Metro Manila at 51 percent.

LAST week, in this space, we noted that the percentage of families that experienced involuntary hunger in 2024 almost matched ...

The Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) is requesting an additional budget to enhance its poverty reduction programs aimed at improving the lives of the marginalized sector. In a Bagong ...

According to the survey, self-rated poverty was highest in Mindanao at 76 percent, followed by the Visayas at 74 percent, Luzon outside Metro Manila at 55 percent, and Metro Manila at 51 percent.

THE work of reducing poverty in the land is like letting drops of water fall on a rock. You hope to make a crack, but you do not know when.