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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — Millions of Filipino families remain at risk of poverty even as the Philippines moves closer to upper-middle-income country (UMIC) status, showing that national economic gains ...

MANILA, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 22.4% or 25.24 million people in the first half of 2023, the government's statistics agency said on Friday, from 23.7% in the same ...

The OCTA Q4 2025 survey showed self-rated food poverty dropping by 19 percentage points, from 49 percent in the third quarter ...

A SHARP drop in self-rated poverty has reopened an old but unresolved question for the Marcos administration: can the Philippines realistically bring poverty down to single-digit levels by the end of ...

Manila: Food poverty in the Philippines fell sharply in the fourth quarter of 2025, signaling easing pressure on households as food access improved and prices stabilized amid government interventions, ...

What is one important lesson we can learn from the Philippines' conditional cash transfer program? Poor and vulnerable families can overcome poverty and deprivation through their own efforts. All they ...

MANILA, Philippines — The government has surpassed its target on job generation and poverty reduction in 2025, Palace Press Officer Claire Castro said on Tuesday. During a press briefing, Castro said ...

MANILA (Reuters) - Armed with gloves, rubber boots and a rake, "Mangrove Warrior" Willer Gualva, 68, comes to Freedom Island in the Philippines almost every day to stop it being engulfed by trash. No ...

Country Director for Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand, World Bank Dr. Ndiamé Diop, from Senegal, is the World Bank Country Director for Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. In this ...