Youths are pictured at at a slum area in Baseco, Tondo city, metro Manila MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 15.5% last year from 18.1% in 2021, with rising food prices ...
PROSPERIDAD, AGUSAN DEL SUR, Philippines — Inside the provincial capitol complex here, workers carefully handle bags of soil collected from farms across the province—dark earth from upland slopes, ...
The latest study by the state-owned think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies, or PIDS, showed that, relative to the World Bank's upper-middle-income country poverty threshold of $8.30 a ...
MANILA: This week, on Wednesday (Feb 25), the Philippines will mark the 40th anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr in 1986. Survey results suggest, ...
MANILA, Philippines —This week, on Wednesday, February 25, the Philippines will mark the 40th anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. in 1986. Survey ...
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 15.5% last year from 18.1% in 2021, with rising food prices limiting the reduction in the number of poor, the government's statistics agency ...