A staggering 455 million of the world’s poor live in countries exposed to violent conflict, hindering and even reversing hard-won progress to reduce poverty, according to the latest update of the ...

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 National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) will release a new poverty threshold by May 2025, according to Senator ...

MANILA: Rescuers in the Philippines were diving into a lake and scouring isolated villages on Sunday (Oct 27) to locate dozens of missing people as the death toll from Tropical Storm Trami hit 100.

More than 120 people have been killed and dozens are missing after floods and landslides hit the Philippines in the wake of Tropical Storm Trami. It is the southeast Asian archipelago's deadliest ...

MANILA – Self-rated poverty in the Philippines dropped in the third quarter of 2024 with about 43 percent of Filipino families, or approximately 11.3 million, considering themselves poor, according to ...

However, sporadic clashes with extremist factions and ongoing poverty continue to challenge long-term stability. A BRITISH man and his wife were rescued from Philippine ISIS militants in a ...

MANILA, Philippines — As China’s “illegal, coercive, aggressive and deceptive actions” at sea continue, the Philippines appears to be the only member of the Association of Southeast Asian ...

The southern Philippines has bountiful resources but has long been hamstrung by stark poverty and an array of insurgents and outlaws. A 2014 peace agreement between the government and the Moro ...

The southern Philippines has bountiful resources but has long been hamstrung by stark poverty and an array of insurgents and outlaws. A 2014 peace agreement between the government and the Moro ...