Despite a modest drop in its poverty rate, Bukidnon remains among the poorest provinces in the Philippines, with 27 percent ...

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Watch the prologue from "Born Poor" — a documentary made over 14 years that follows kids in three families who try to overcome poverty from childhood through the teen years to young adulthood.

Youths are pictured at at a slum area in Baseco, Tondo city, metro Manila MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 15.5% last year from 18.1% in 2021, with rising food prices ...

To reverse the legacy of the Dodge Plan and its derivatives can be done by asserting a sovereign, Filipino-led industrial strategy. It is a declaration of economic independence and a commitment to ...

MANILA, Philippines — The biggest threats to the Philippines in the next two years are an economic downturn and poverty, ...

MANILA, Aug 15 (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 15.5% last year from 18.1% in 2021, with rising food prices limiting the reduction in the number of poor, the government's ...