MANILA, Philippines — Millions of Filipino families remain at risk of poverty even as the Philippines moves closer to upper-middle-income country (UMIC) status, showing that national economic gains ...

DESPITE declining official poverty figures, state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) on Wednesday found that about three in 10 households still faced a high risk of falling ...

The OCTA Q4 2025 survey showed self-rated food poverty dropping by 19 percentage points, from 49 percent in the third quarter ...

A SHARP drop in self-rated poverty has reopened an old but unresolved question for the Marcos administration: can the ...

Manila:Food poverty in the Philippines fell sharply in the fourth quarter of 2025, signaling easing pressure on households as food access improved ...

The proportion of Filipino families who consider themselves poor dramatically decreased to 37%, or an estimated 9.8 million ...

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 ...

It’s the economy, stupid,” former United States President Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign adviser, James Carville, ...