The government think tank Institute for Development Studies said the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the trajectory of middle-class development and highlighted the fragility of ...
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 ...
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: This week, on Wednesday (Feb 25), the Philippines will mark the 40th anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr in 1986. Survey results suggest, ...
MANILA, Philippines —This week, on Wednesday, February 25, the Philippines will mark the 40th anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. in 1986. Survey ...
IN THE latest Philippines Economic Update (PEU) for December 2025, the World Bank underscored that urbanization and ...
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 ...