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—The percentage of people living below the poverty line in the Philippines has narrowed only slightly, despite robust growth of the Philippine economy over the last few years, according to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Philippines is making headway in the fight against poverty, according to the government's official statistics agency, with the national economy continuing to expand at an encouraging rate. The ...

QUEZON CITY — In pursuit of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s to lower the poverty incidence in the Philippines to a single-digit by 2028, the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) concluded the ...

The Philippine Statistics Authority says that nearly 1 in 5 Filipinos are living below the poverty line – but the real number could be a lot higher.

Sachet of Colgate toothpaste is pictured amidst a garbage-filled shore on Freedom Island, Paranaque City MANILA (Reuters) - Armed with gloves, rubber boots and a rake, "Mangrove Warrior" Willer Gualva ...

If the fast-growing Philippine economy story has the aura of a fairy tale, a quarter of the Southeast Asian country's population haven't heard it - the poor. And last week President Rodrigo Duterte ...

Sources: Deininger and Squire, 1996, and Philippines, National Statistics Office, 1994. Although an improvement in income distribution is often accompanied by a decrease in the poverty rate (absent a ...