Poverty - Matches

AGRICULTURE Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol wants to perpetually earmark all the tariff revenues from rice imports for the sector once the quantita..

The APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Philippines is pushing the country to take advantage of the regional economic partnerships such as the Regio..

LAST week, we were able to delve into the barriers and bottlenecks that constrain young pupils from being educated. We have discussed on the socio-cul..

Study finds no evidence to back claim that the conditional cash transfer program promotes laziness It’s drawing flak again. The Pantawid Pamily..

CLASSES already started last Monday. More than 25 million students in the elementary, junior and senior high school levels flocked to thousands of pri..

On May 24, Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol said the P70-billion Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program or 4Ps only makes beneficiaries overl..

This paper defines the middle-income class as those whose per capita incomes are within two- and twelve- times the (official) poverty line. Descriptiv..

The government should consider slowing down the implementation of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) to make sure only the poor benefit fro..

Dr. Nanak Kakwani, former professor of economics at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, discussed his paper on "How Does the Patte..

A key commitment of the 2030 Global Agenda is to ensure no one is left behind. To explore the opportunities and constraints faced by higher education ..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies, the National Economic and Development Authority, and the United Nations Development Programme, Phili..

The government should make social protection programs adaptive to climate change and disasters. According to study published by state think tank Phil..

Social safety nets (SSNs), such as the country’s own Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), could lift millions out of poverty, according to..

The government should take climate change into account in implementing social protection programs, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (P..

A PIDS study says 4 in every 10 Filipino households have remained poor at least once in a period of three years. Even those who have not experienced p..