Poverty - Matches

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..

A PIDS study finds women living in poverty in the Philippines are more vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS than those from ri..

The government needs to improve targeting of social protection programs aimed to uplift the lives of the poor and the vulnerable, according to a repor..

(First of two parts) Around 50 percent of the world’s habitable land had already been converted to farming land, according to the World Wide Fu..

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) needs to improve the documentation and strengthen its information technology systems to furthe..

Many poor and even nonpoor households remain vulnerable despite efforts of the government to save Filipinos from the claws of poverty. To support thes..