Fifty-two percent or around 14.4 million Filipino families last March considered themselves poor, based on the results of the ...

While over 90% of Filipinos can read and write, just 70% can comprehend what they read — with the disparity reaching its most ...

The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) on Wednesday touted progress in the government’s poverty reduction efforts, ...

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is looking to expand its “Walang Gutom” Kitchen program which provides feeding and food credits to poverty-stricken Filipinos. The move comes ...

Nathalie Mago's work day begins after she's tucked her three daughters into bed and flicked off the lights in their house north of the Philippine capital Manila. As her young family sleeps, she fires ...

A recent survey by the Social Weather Stations, a leading Philippine polling firm, revealed a staggering increase in self-rated poverty among Filipino families, with 63 percent of respondents ...

The Philippines as a favored investment destination ... which in turn lead to higher purchasing power and lower poverty incidence.

with over 700 million people worldwide living in extreme poverty—on less than P123.70 per day. In the Philippines, the situation is equally dire. As of 2023, approximately 10 percent of the population ...

By Kent Alistair Gerona Filipino voters have long been promised progress, yet election after election, the country remains ...

MANILA/JAKARTA -- Richard Gaboso's motorized tricycle taxi parked outside his home in Cavite, 50 kilometers south of Manila, has what he calls two special features. One is his favorite speakers ...

Job-seeking platform Upwork lists the Philippines among the top five countries churning out virtual assistants, alongside India, Nigeria, Pakistan and the United States.