An up-to-date Philippine poverty threshold is set to come out in May 2025, according to Sen. Grace Poe. Speaking on behalf of ...

The count done by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) shows there are at least two dozens of political ...

The Philippine economy would have to grow by eight percent yearly until 2028 to bring down the country’s poverty rate to single digits. The Marcos administration aims to reduce the poverty ...

THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMY needs to grow by an average of 8% annually to achieve its goal of bringing down poverty incidence to single digits by 2028, an economist said. “But that is not enough to bring ...

Official poverty has just gone from triennial to biennial. The official figures on poverty are generated by the Philippine Statistics Authority (psa.gov.ph), using the orthodox method of (a) choosing ...

Meanwhile, the World Bank expects the Philippines’ poverty rate to decline to 13.6% this year, before sliding to 11.3% in 2026, according to its latest Macro Poverty Outlook. Its previous forecasts ...

ACHIEVING an 8 percent growth rate for a certain period of years is the key to bringing down the Philippine poverty level to a single digit. So said Bernardo Villegas, the academic economist known for ...

And Bitcoin can help. This is an opinion editorial by the entire Bitskwela team, a Philippine-based education company focused on accelerating the country's regional Bitcoin adoption. Corruption, ...

NGM Maps He carved ... families out of poverty, and houses built with cash from migrant workers have sprouted up in the rice fields of backwater provinces. In the Philippines, December is ...

poverty, unemployment, and income inequality; migration and remittances; and the Philippine development record in comparative perspective. While the analyses offered in this volume do not arrive at a ...

A study by the Asian Development Bank shows that countries in Asia will suffer worse damage from the climate crisis than ...

You don’t realize how important water is until you don’t have it,” said one of thousands of North Carolinians still without a ...