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, Philippines — Millions of Filipino families remain at risk of poverty even as the Philippines moves closer to ...

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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—The percentage of people living below the poverty line in the Philippines has narrowed only slightly, despite robust growth of the Philippine economy over the last few years, according to the ...

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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 ...