Poverty in the Philippines is neither a mystery, nor an accident. And certainly, it is not what the poor want for themselves or their loved ones. Absolutely, not their fault in spite of some ...

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

OUR rice policy, which has been implemented since the 1970s, has consigned our palay farmers and agricultural workers in ...

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

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Weak law enforcement, governance MANILA, Philippines — The country’s fisheries sector is facing “imminent” collapse as it loses at least 45 million kilos of fish annually due to weak law enforcement ...

Breast cancer in the Philippines is imposing a multi-billion peso burden on the national economy as high costs and delayed ...

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 ...

The top 10 finalists of the Miss World Philippines 2026 proved to be a revealing snapshot of how today’s Filipina views the ...

It’s the economy, stupid,” former United States President Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign adviser, James Carville, ...

ADB grants GCash lending arm Fuse Financing with P1.75-B credit facility to expand loan access to MSMEs, women entrepreneurs, especially in high poverty areas. ADB’s  financing is complemented by ...

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 ...