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: Thousands were evacuated in coastal provinces of the Philippines on Monday (Nov 3), ahead of a typhoon due to make ...

Philippine bishops have urged Catholics and others to demand accountability and transparency from government authorities for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Typhoon Kalmaegi was approaching the Philippine coast and was forecast to slam the shore later on Monday, as authorities ...

Pope Francis on Friday demanded leaders in the Philippines end "scandalous social inequalities", hitting out at corruption in a nation where tens of millions of Catholics endure brutal poverty. The ...

LAS VEGAS—For the first time since I've known him, I can now picture Manny Pacquiao as the future resident of Malacanang Palace. Really, I mean it. With a mixture of the usual prefight boxing hype and ...

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 ...