The number of poor families in Batangas increase in 2023 despite the province being a part of the rapidly-growing CALABARZON region.
Data from the Philippine...
“The DSWD cannot do it by its lonesome but in close coordination with other agencies using a whole-of-government approach”
The Philippine Development Plan for 2023-2028...
Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez on Wednesday welcomed the latest reduction in self-poverty ratings of OCTA Research, saying the efforts of the administration of...
The Department of Finance (DOF) on Saturday said the Philippines is set to reduce the poverty rate below 10 percent.
During a Quezon City news forum, Finance...
President Marcos vowed to lower the country’s poverty rate to nine percent in 2028 by investing in job-generating infrastructure and social protection programs.
This as...
"GDP growth is a single-digit number; poverty incidence involves millions of Filipinos"
Arguably, the most avidly-watched items in the business pages of newspapers and their...
Poverty incidence in the Philippines fell to 15.5 percent in 2023 from 18.1 percent in 2021, and the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)...
Acting Economic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua said Monday poverty incidence may temporarily climb to 17.5 percent this year because of the economic slowdown...
Malacañang on Sunday brushed off the recent survey that recorded the highest self-related poverty rate in five years and said that over 13.1 million...
By Marina Koreneva with Andrea Palasciano in Moscow
At a Saint Petersburg cafe, a singer performs Soviet-era tunes for 50 pensioners enjoying a mid-day meal.
In...
