Poverty - Matches

The latest official poverty statistics for the basic sectors released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) last month held no surprises. Accor..

For an economy to be successful, the government and society in general must encourage and facilitate upward economic mobility, the ability of an indiv..

MANILA, Philippines – Newly appointed Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian said he is prepared for the r..

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is the government’s first true venture into solving the great poverty problem by identifying and t..

In the Philippines, you can be considered “rich” if you earn at least P182,000 and up each month. You are “high income” if you..

This study provides new evidence of the heterogeneous impact of the Philippines’ conditional cash transfer (CCT) program designed to improve hum..

MANILA, Philippines – On a humid Tuesday afternoon, 51-year-old Marites Gutierrez chops up a mix of eggplants, squash, and string beans which sh..

At least 36.9% of senior citizens in the country did not have a pension in 2020, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies has reported. Accor..

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is getting flak for its apparent inability to solve widespread poverty, which is quite weird because it ..

AFTER 13 years of receiving cash grants, about 90 percent of the active beneficiaries of the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4..

AFTER 13 years of receiving cash grants, about 90 percent of the active beneficiaries of the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4..

SEN. Joseph Victor Ejercito and other senators moved at a Finance subcommittee hearing Wednesday to thoroughly “evaluate” the P194.63-bill..

Senator Risa Hontiveros is seeking a joint congressional oversight committee to evaluate the need for the continuous implementation of the Pantawid Pa..