The number of Filipinos who deem themselves poor and food-poor is at its highest in two decades, the Social Weather Stations ...
President Marcos’ recent statement about the Philippines potentially achieving upper middle-income status in 2025 is both ambitious and inspiring. His remarks at the Malacañang Vin d’Honneur signaled ...
Economic downturn, poverty and inequality and inflation are the major risks for the Philippines in 2025, according to the ...
Filipino families who consider themselves poor continued to increase in the fourth quarter of 2024, with half of them—the ...
Amid all the long-running state-funded dole-out programs for the poor, a survey conducted by pollster Social Weather Stations ...
The number of Filipino families living in poverty has declined in 2023 compared to two years earlier, according to the results of the Philippine Statistics Authority's (PSA) Family Income and ...
The Makati City government’s program in social services, health care, and education have greatly improved the lives of its ...
The recent Social Weather Survey (SWS) revealing that about 63 percent of Filipino families rated themselves as “poor” in December 2024 serves as a sobering reminder of the ongoing economic challenges ...
would support economic growth and reduce poverty. The spending is higher than a projection of 6.18 trillion pesos announced ...
Australian boxing champ Mark Schleibs says like many other Filipinos, he knows how it feels to live in poverty. “Being Filipino and coming from poverty I want to make something of myself to make ...
In 2022, the World Risk Index ranked the Philippines as the country with the highest disaster risk. What’s more, widespread poverty is a major obstacle to children reaching their full potential; girls ...