Ateneo de Manila Policy Engagement on Poverty Eradication. Ateneo de Manila University actively participates in national policy formulation to design, advocate for, and implement ...

The Department of Agriculture (DA) in the Philippines will focus on the country’s 10 poorest provinces as part of president-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to increase food production and alleviate ...

MANILA (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 statistics agency ...

Despite cutting poverty to a record-low 9.7 per cent, high costs and climate risks leave millions of Filipino families on edge The Philippines has cut its official poverty rate to below 10 per cent ...

Rice prices have soared in the Philippines in recent months. The dietary staple, which accounts for over 20 percent of the food budget of poor families, has become increasingly unaffordable. Ronnel ...

Government programmes combine employment creation, skills investment, social protection and stronger public service delivery ...

MANILA, March 5 (Reuters) - The Philippines' poor are expanding by around 1.3 million people every year, as rising food prices and sluggish wage growth mean that more families cannot afford to feed ...