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 ...

MANILA, May 1 (Reuters) - Fe Capco and her five children live in a shack with no running water along a dirt track in eastern Manila. She earns about $100 a month washing clothes and her husband used ...

DESPITE declining official poverty figures, state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) on Wednesday found that about three in 10 households still faced a high risk of falling ...

MANILA, Philippines — Since its introduction in the 1987 Constitution, the party-list system was envisioned as a corrective to politics dominated by the elite — a mechanism that would allow ...

MANILA, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 22.4% or 25.24 million people in the first half of 2023, the government's statistics agency said on Friday, from 23.7% in the same ...

MANILA (Reuters) - Armed with gloves, rubber boots and a rake, "Mangrove Warrior" Willer Gualva, 68, comes to Freedom Island in the Philippines almost every day to stop it being engulfed by trash. No ...

Kennedy D’Silva, director of Karuna Football Foundation, led a five-day exploratory mission to Manila, Philippines Panaji: After Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in Africa, the Karuna Football Foundation ...

MANILA, Philippines — Many Filipino families consider themselves poor, according to a survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS). The SWS said the survey of 1,200 adult respondents ...

Catholic bishops from the Philippines pray at the National Synodal Consultation in Tagaytay City July 4-7, 2022. Philippine bishops pledged to prioritize the poor following the consultation with ...