Youths are pictured at at a slum area in Baseco, Tondo city, metro Manila MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 15.5% last year from 18.1% in 2021, with rising food prices ...

The video examines pagpag, a controversial street food found in parts of the Philippines. Preparation methods show how discarded food is cleaned, cooked, and resold under extreme economic conditions.

The OCTA Q4 2025 survey showed self-rated food poverty dropping by 19 percentage points, from 49 percent in the third quarter ...

A SHARP drop in self-rated poverty has reopened an old but unresolved question for the Marcos administration: can the Philippines realistically bring poverty down to single-digit levels by the end of ...

An estimated 4.5 million Filipino families no longer consider themselves poor as shown in the self-rated poverty, registering the largest single-quarter improvement ever observed, declining by 17 ...

Manila: Food poverty in the Philippines fell sharply in the fourth quarter of 2025, signaling easing pressure on households as food access improved and prices stabilized amid government interventions, ...

Poverty in the Philippines is neither a mystery, nor an accident. And certainly, it is not what the poor want for themselves ...

Country Director for Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand, World Bank Dr. Ndiamé Diop, from Senegal, is the World Bank Country Director for Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. In this ...

Samerson Orias was working as a line cook last year in the rural Philippines when his friend told him he could make way more money playing a new video game. Orias was earning about 4,000 pesos a month ...

MANILA (Reuters) - 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 ...