By Knut OstbyResident Representative ad interim,and Mohamed Shahudh,Economist Recent events in the Philippines illustrate ...

Informants involved in a child rescue operation are suspected of abusing minors Image: Gretchen Hauducoeur/DW This article ...

MSC Foundation and the United Nations Children's Fund will work to transform education for 400,000 children in the ...

In 2015, the United Nations introduced the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—a set of 17 global targets designed to end ...

The Philippines is considered the world’s leading supplier of abaca, meeting 90 percent of global demand. Abaca or Manila hemp is versatile and has a number of uses, according to a report from the ...

Corruption in public infrastructure projects has exposed deep weaknesses in Philippine accountability institutions.

IN the past four decades, the Philippines may have lost up to $1 trillion in critical junctures. In the future, such losses ...

In my last column, I wrote about Oxfam and the concept of income inequality as the major economic problem in the world today.

At the same time, many Eastern and Southern European nations have slashed their poverty rates by dozens of percentage points, ...

Many still face catastrophic health expenses that drive families into poverty. And even when patients do enter the system, the quality they receive is suboptimal.

The MSC Foundation and UNICEF announced the next phase of their 16-year partnership (to date, generating $17 million) with a ...

While NGOs and charity groups have mission statements that claim to uplift the lives of impoverished families, often ...