Poverty - Matches

MANILA, Philippines – Newly appointed Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian said he is prepared for the r..

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is the government’s first true venture into solving the great poverty problem by identifying and t..

In the Philippines, you can be considered “rich” if you earn at least P182,000 and up each month. You are “high income” if you..

This study provides new evidence of the heterogeneous impact of the Philippines’ conditional cash transfer (CCT) program designed to improve hum..

MANILA, Philippines – On a humid Tuesday afternoon, 51-year-old Marites Gutierrez chops up a mix of eggplants, squash, and string beans which sh..

At least 36.9% of senior citizens in the country did not have a pension in 2020, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies has reported. Accor..

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is getting flak for its apparent inability to solve widespread poverty, which is quite weird because it ..

AFTER 13 years of receiving cash grants, about 90 percent of the active beneficiaries of the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4..

AFTER 13 years of receiving cash grants, about 90 percent of the active beneficiaries of the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4..

SEN. Joseph Victor Ejercito and other senators moved at a Finance subcommittee hearing Wednesday to thoroughly “evaluate” the P194.63-bill..

Senator Risa Hontiveros is seeking a joint congressional oversight committee to evaluate the need for the continuous implementation of the Pantawid Pa..

Since 2011, the government, through the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), has been implementing the Social Pension (SocPen) Program..

This piece concerns the sizes of classes in society that differ vertically, like the “lower class,” “middle class,” and &ldquo..

DESPITE significant progress in attaining food security, the government still needs to address challenges in the agriculture sector to ensure this goa..

The Philippine private pension system has serious flaws that need to be fixed. It is not portable, not funded, not adequate, not actuarially fair, not..