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 ...

Two hundred meters from my home is a community of informal settlers. Their houses, mostly made of flimsy materials, stand in stark contrast to those of people who live in posh subdivisions. The ...

The latest study by the state-owned think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies, or PIDS, showed that, relative to the World Bank's upper-middle-income country poverty threshold of $8.30 a ...

MANILA — As many as 15,000 people are homeless after a huge fire engulfed an overcrowded slum in Manila, destroying thousands of homes and sending residents fleeing with their few possessions. The ...

Children pray before eating their free meals inside a missionary house during a feeding program funded by a South Korean missionary, at a slum area in Baseco, Tondo city, metro Manila MANILA (Reuters) ...

MANILA, Philippines — Delegates attending an international conference in the Philippines capital may not see what they came to discuss: abject poverty. A makeshift, temporary wall has been erected ...

The Philippines, with its abundant natural resources and vibrant cultural legacy, should by all indicators be a thriving and resilient economy. Yet more than seventy years after independence, it ...