Economic downturn, poverty and inequality and inflation are the major risks for the Philippines in 2025, according to the ...

President Marcos’ recent statement about the Philippines potentially achieving upper middle-income status in 2025 is both ambitious and inspiring. His remarks at the Malacañang Vin d’Honneur signaled ...

The Makati City government’s program in social services, health care, and education have greatly improved the lives of its ...

The number of Filipinos who deem themselves poor and food-poor is at its highest in two decades, the Social Weather Stations ...

Filipino families who consider themselves poor continued to increase in the fourth quarter of 2024, with half of them—the ...

I had no advance hint of last Thursday’s Inquirer headline, “SWS: Self-Rated Poverty at 63%, highest since ’03” (Inquirer.net ...

An estimated 17.4 million Filipino families deemed themselves poor in the last quarter of 2024, the highest in over two ...

Creating 19 prosthetic limbs for 13 children in under a week might seem like a daunting task, but Robert Schulman has never ...

The inflation data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) recently showed the immense challenges confronting policymakers in preparing the country’s future workforce. Last week, the ...

In 2022, the World Risk Index ranked the Philippines as the country with the highest disaster risk. What’s more, widespread poverty is a major obstacle to children reaching their full potential; girls ...

would support economic growth and reduce poverty. The spending is higher than a projection of 6.18 trillion pesos announced ...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The poverty incidence in Cebu Province, including its highly urbanized cities, has dropped in 2023 based on the latest data reported by the Philippine Statistics ...