Social protection - Matches

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) will launch its newest book titled “The Philippines’ Response to the COVID-19 Pand..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) will hold a public webinar on April 25, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM, via Facebook Live. It will fe..

Hello, PIDS friends! Here's our #PIDSFactFriday for the week on the issues faced by creative and multimedia online workers A PIDS study that explored..

The first issue of the Development Research News for 2022 revisits the country's social protection programs. Its banner story underscores the importan..

Hello, PIDS friends! Here's our #PIDSFactFriday for the week on Filipino migrant workers.A PIDS study that looked into the access to social protecti..

It would be “more challenging” for the Philippines to reduce poverty and return to its pre-pandemic growth path with the COVID-19 pandemic..

A significant proportion of Filipino migrant workers can be categorized as ‘potentially vulnerable’ due to lack of access to social protec..

Providing the indigent elderly with a monthly allowance is a good response to improving the plight of seniors among the poor and vulnerable. With the ..

The Social Pension (SocPen) program, which provides needy senior citizens with a noncontributory monthly pension of PHP 500, has considerably widened ..

#PIDSInfoBits: Did you know that majority of the poor in the Philippines are households headed by those engaged in agriculture?In 2018, about 52.4 per..

Lifting Filipinos out of poverty is essential to achieve the Philippine Development Plan 2017–2022 target of becoming an upper middle-income country..

The Philippines aspires to be an upper middle-income country by 2022 as stated in the 2017–2022 Philippine Development Plan. It has also committed t..

The COVID-19 pandemic has such a wide-reaching and sudden adverse impact on people’s livelihoods. For a country like the Philippines which significa..

Since 2011, the government, through the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), has implemented the Social Pension (SocPen) Program which..