Half of Filipino families (50%), or about 14.2 million, consider themselves poor in September 2025, slightly higher than the ...

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino families say they now need at least P12,000 monthly to stay out of poverty, with those in Metro Manila placing the threshold even higher at P20,000, the latest Social ...

HOW we understand and measure poverty has evolved. From early income-based definitions, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s ...

More than 19 per cent of children worldwide live in extreme poverty, surviving on under $3 a day, according to a new UNICEF ...

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 ...

The Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) on Thursday underscored the role of reclamation in easing flooding, reducing ...

Some Filipinos in Manila have have sought shelter in public graveyards Many say have permission to live in the graveyards in exchange for keeping them clean Poverty in Manila runs deep and millions ...

JOHANNESBURG -Billionaires in the world’s leading economies made $2.2 trillion last year, which would have been enough to lift all the world’s poor out of poverty, global campaign group Oxfam said ...

MANILA (Reuters Life!) - Thrift isn't something Manila's street urchins consider, as most have barely enough money to survive, but a welfare group is showing them that saving their meager income can ...

In teeming Manila, where poverty runs deep and millions lack adequate shelter, some of the living have found refuge among the dead. Laileah Cuetara's shanty sits atop a pair of raised tombs inside the ...