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 ...
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 ...
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 ...