It is exhausting to stay focused on what I believe should be our nation’s real concerns when the environment is consumed by political drama rather than the pressing challenges to governance and ...

MANILA, Philippines — The biggest threats to the Philippines in the next two years are an economic downturn and poverty, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF). The Global Risks Report 2025 ...

Senatorial candidate and Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar is pushing for the modernization of agribusiness and the creation of more rural jobs to transform farming into a profitable, high-tech, and ...

Illegal Logging in the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park, the Philippines This is the metadata section ... activity of households along the forest frontier will aggravate rural poverty. However this ...

Even the World Bank (WB), in its 2022 report “Overcoming Poverty and Inequality in the Philippines,” recognised that the country has made strides in reducing poverty. “The Philippines has ...

It should be clear enough to us that our biggest problem is the high incidence of poverty and involuntary hunger among our people. Secretary Frederick Go, the President’s key economic adviser, says he ...

Using the Family Income and Expenditure Surveys of 2003, 2006 and 2009, matched with rainfall data from 43 rainfall stations in the Philippines, the report found that droughts decrease food ...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a contribution of PHP 45 million (US$780,000) from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) to enhance agriculture-re ...