Poverty - Matches

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

The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) social pension (SocPen) program has covered an additional 37.9 percent of the country&..

The Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizen program, also known as SocPen, has contributed to improving the coverage of the country’s pension..

THE poorest senior citizens should receive more under the country’s monthly social pension for the elderly in order to lift them up from poverty..

They’re old, but not dead; retired, but not tired; aging, but still dreaming, and now they have spoken.My Jan. 5 column on the plight of senior ..

The next administration will inherit a social time bomb — this social timebomb is income inequality, or the gaps in the distribution of wealth a..

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 government should consider increasing the noncontributory monthly pension of senior citizens amid inflationary pressures and after the pandemic hi..

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

In a house somewhere in Metro Manila lives a senior citizen all by himself.I don’t really know much about him except through e-mails he sends me..

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews) — For those who escaped the wrath of Typhoon Odette which made landfall on December 16, I hope you had a safe holiday wi..

MANILA, Philippines — It would be more challenging for the Philippines to lift people out of poverty as the pandemic keeps economic recovery han..

STATE think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) compiled a list of policies and programs that can boost present or future incomes..

THE GOVERNMENT is hindered in designing effective anti-poverty programs by limited data, according to a study by the Philippine Institute for Developm..

MANILA, Philippines—It is possible for the Philippines to wipe out chronic poverty but only if it uplifted the most vulnerable populations, espe..