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Meet the ‘obese’ political dynasties of the Philippines
The count done by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) shows there are at least two dozens of political ...
The Associated Press - Business News on MSN10d
Asia needs to spend much more to adapt to climate change and limit its damage, bank study says
A study by the Asian Development Bank shows that countries in Asia will suffer worse damage from the climate crisis than ...
The Manila Times on MSN24d
Searca, IRRI foster rice policy discussion
It was participated by 23 researchers and policy influencers from IRRI, Caraga State University, the Department of Agriculture (DA), DA-Philippine ... that the road map "focuses on improving ...
These St. Louis schools couldn’t find teachers. So they recruited from abroad
She is among the international teachers brought to the St. Louis area to fill teacher positions that would have likely remained vacant or filled with n… ST. LOUIS — Arianne Diño’s fifth-grade class ...
Inquirer on MSN2d
Updated Philippine poverty threshold to be released May 2025 – Poe
An up-to-date Philippine poverty threshold is set to come out in May 2025, according to Sen. Grace Poe. Speaking on behalf of ...
manilatimes11d
Lessons from the economics Nobel laureates
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 ...
BusinessWorld24d
PHL needs 8% GDP growth to bring down poverty rate
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 ...
Philippine Daily Inquirer29d
Self-Rated Poverty stays high
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 ...
Philippine Daily Inquirer23d
To attain single-digit poverty rate, PH must grow by 8% yearly ‘til 2028
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 ...