The Philippines is expected to sustain its high economic growth, maintain low and stable inflation and strengthen fiscal ...

Rallies by major national teachers' association, youth groups precede protests in Manila against vice president ...

LAST week, in this space, we noted that the percentage of families that experienced involuntary hunger in 2024 almost matched ...

Scientists have newly developed the first antipsychotic medication for schizophrenia in decades, and a vaccine against a form of breast cancer may enter Phase 2 trials this year. And with semaglutide ...

Poverty incidence in the country is expected to continue to go down following improvements in the labor market performance ...

Nearly half of Filipino households (approximately 13.2 million) consider themselves poor consider themselves poor, according ...

We’re continuing our exploration of the top global development employment opportunities in key regions with a look at the ...

The Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) is requesting an additional budget to enhance its poverty reduction ...

In a nation boasting one of the lowest unemployment rates in recent years, the rise of self-rated poverty to record-breaking levels presents a perplexing paradox. This is the reality the Philippines ...

In 1999, a longtime white supremacist from Idaho named Buford Furrow went on a rampage, wounding five people at a Jewish community center in California and also killing a Filipino-American mail ...

It included a detailed study of the “citizen defense patrols” used in Guatemala and the Philippines against Communist rebels — murderously brutal patrols that came to be commonly described as death ...

This is an important research discovery, made possible by a unique, made-in-the-Philippines system of monitoring poverty on a quarterly basis. Reviewing poverty in the past year. For 2024, the ...