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 ...

MANILA, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 22.4% or 25.24 million people in the first half of 2023, the government's statistics agency said on Friday, from 23.7% in the same ...

MANILA—The percentage of people living below the poverty line in the Philippines has narrowed only slightly, despite robust growth of the Philippine economy over the last few years, according to the ...

The Philippines is hit by an average of 20 storms and typhoons each year, routinely striking disaster-prone areas where ...

Sources: Deininger and Squire, 1996, and Philippines, National Statistics Office, 1994. Although an improvement in income distribution is often accompanied by a decrease in the poverty rate (absent a ...

More than 40 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced as rains driven by Typhoon Tino (international name: ...

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 ...