Poverty - Matches

Last April 10, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released estimates of poverty incidence in the first semester of 2018 (see Table 1), stating ..

MANILA, Philippines — Public investments in agriculture and infrastructure in rural areas are crucial in efforts to eradicate extreme poverty an..

In addition to curbing inflation and creating jobs, consistently among the top concerns of Filipinos according to surveys is wages. The poor, in parti..

POVERTY worsened in 17 provinces and cities, including districts in Metro Manila in the first half of 2018, according to the latest data on poverty in..

THE DEPARTMENT of Social Welfare and Development in Western Visayas recently disclosed that Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries th..

(We yield this space to the statement of the Center for Women’s Resources due to its timeliness. – Ed.)BACK to Herod’s time. This is..

MANILA, Philippines — The Filipino middle class – which comprises less than half of the country’s population – is still vulner..

Unlike their parents before them, poor Filipino children are not necessarily doomed to suffer the indignity of poverty, according to experts from the ..

The government must oversee the preparation of the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) to ensure funding and regularity for such data collection effo..

SHOCKS such as natural disasters, inflation, income loss, conflicts, and wars are just some of the factors that can drive more families into poverty o..

The Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) is one of the social protection programs of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) that aims..

This study examines the various issues regarding the production of a multidimensional poverty index (MPI), from the choice of the underlying indicator..

In a developing country such as the Philippines, social protection has been a consistent priority of government to redistribute income to the poor, ma..