VIENTIANE—Lao government plans to spend over 1.3 trillion Lao kip (around 160 million U.S. dollars) on rural development and poverty reduction this year, an official has...
TORONTO—A single paragraph buried in the Ontario budget could mean big changes in the lives of some of the province’s most impoverished residents by giving them...
MANILA – For the past three months, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey has recorded an increase in the poverty incidence in Metro Manila and the...
MANILA — Amid the growing poverty incidence, as noted by a nationwide survey, Malacañang said that the administration continues to focus on programs that aim to...
Representatives Luz Ilagan and Emmi de Jesus, both with the Gabriela Party-list, strongly decried the increase in allocations towards the “anomalous” Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps),...
MANILA — The government has stepped up its efforts to improve the plight of people in the agricultural sector, Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio...
MANILA – Investors in the agriculture sector believes that large-scale commercial farming of various industrial crops and technology adaptation can be a powerful poverty alleviation key...
MANILA (PNA) — Caloocan City Representative Edgar Erice on Monday revealed the strong links between poverty and patronage politics, citing that nine out of the 10...
MANILA (PNA) — The government will not relent in its efforts at reducing the poverty level in the country, said Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary...
The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) recently disclosed that there has been no significant improvement to the poverty situation in the country despite the six-percent...