This is the first trap of poverty. What I'd like you to do is, know that your social status is not who you are. It's where you are. And when you embrace an identity that you are great — no more a ...

The Philippine Poverty Reduction Summit 2025 (PPRS25) concluded on Tuesday with a strong call to action for deeper ...

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 said on Thursday.

ORGANIZED labor called on the 20th Congress to end the discriminatory wage system and ensure that all workers, regardless of ...

MANILA, Aug 15 (Reuters) - About 2.3 million people in the Philippines were pushed into poverty between 2018 and 2021, largely due to the economic downturn caused by the pandemic, the statistics ...

About a third of Manila's 12 million residents live in slums, and a third of 94 million Filipinos live below the poverty line of $1.25 a day. Overall, more than half the population in Asia remains ...

MANILA, Philippines — Fifty-two percent or around 14.4 million Filipino families last March considered themselves poor, based on the results of the latest self-rated poverty survey of the Social ...

The children of the Manila slums in the Philippines have been pictured smiling and laughing as they play ... Says despite the filth and poverty the people were welcoming and seem to be happy ...

Poverty Philippines Dan Brown Metro Manila pollution poverty slums traffic Welcome to Manila, the gates of hell. 30 May 2013. Iris Gonzales. There is a furore in Manila now, as heated as the scalding ...