Former House speaker Pantaleon Alvarez says the country’s constitution allows Duterte to run in a presidential election again.

In the Philippines, around 1.9% of the working population are in extreme poverty or living below the poverty line of $2.15 a day last year, up from the 0.55% in 2023, according to the International ...

Through an open letter, Bishop Eugenius Cañete of the Diocese of Gumaca in Quezon province has slammed the government over ...

A majority of the frontrunners in the party-list race for the upcoming elections do not represent the poor and marginalized sector, election watchdog Kontra Daya revealed yesterday. In a recent report ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Eufemia “Mimi” Pet Doringo is an urban poor leader and activist. She serves as the Secretary-General of the Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay), a militant organization advocating for the rights ...

In 1999, the Philippines was a developing country adjudged by the World Bank to be of middle-middle-incomes status…A quarter-century later, the ...

The cardinal observed that it’s “a shame” that the Philippines is a predominantly Christian country and, at the same time, “is known as a very poor and corrupt society.” “I make a ...

Philippine agriculture in disarray, the UMIC goal is meaningless. The Philippines should abandon for the moment its dream of ...