DECEMBER 2024 came to a close with hardly any harbinger of good tidings and very few reasons to hope for a better, more ...

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) continues to partner with various government agencies to help ...

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is an important program for the government’s bid to bring down poverty rates in ...

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 ...

LAST week, in this space, we noted that the percentage of families that experienced involuntary hunger in 2024 almost matched the figure at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. This was borne ...

In 25 years, the Philippines suffered massive declines on three fronts: 1) in the output and growth rate of agriculture, once the economy’s mainstay and biggest employer; 2) in economic growth, down ...

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 Makati City government’s program in social services, health care, and education have greatly improved the lives of its residents and decreased ...

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.