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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Millions of people lived in extreme poverty as the country's debt mounted ... government-appointed security detail, electrified the Philippines. Tens of thousands of people joined the outpouring ...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed the 2025 budget into law on Monday, saying a planned 10% ...

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 ...