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) ...

LONDON, Oct 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mark Sultan Gersava grew up in poverty, one of 12 children of a slash-and-burn subsistence farmer in the Philippines province of Sultan Kudarat. Today he ...

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 ...

I am pleased to welcome you to today’s media briefing on the Philippines Poverty Assessment report, entitled “ Making Growth Work for the Poor: A Poverty Assessment for the Philippines.” The Report ...

Driving around Manila, you can see a vast difference in life and socio-economic status. The Philippines is like a lot of third world countries where the rich are very rich and the poor are very poor ...

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 ...

Jose Toribio, a taxi driver in Manila, is up at five in the morning. He makes his cup of coffee and eats some pandesal, or salt bread, known as the “poor man’s bread” for being a cheap staple in the ...

TULSA, Okla. — All February, FOX23 has shared stories from ten Tulsans who travelled to the Philippines to help young girls escaping sex trafficking. FOX23's Investigative Reporter Janna Clark was ...

MANILA, May 30, 2018 – With solid economic fundamentals, the Philippines is well-placed to speed up poverty reduction. The challenge is to provide more economic opportunities, which would help many ...