Poverty - Matches

A PIDS study finds women living in poverty in the Philippines are more vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS than those from ri..

The government needs to improve targeting of social protection programs aimed to uplift the lives of the poor and the vulnerable, according to a repor..

(First of two parts) Around 50 percent of the world’s habitable land had already been converted to farming land, according to the World Wide Fu..

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) needs to improve the documentation and strengthen its information technology systems to furthe..

Many poor and even nonpoor households remain vulnerable despite efforts of the government to save Filipinos from the claws of poverty. To support thes..

Local government units (LGUs) need to invest in the development of a climate-smart agriculture that fits the needs of the community in an effort to ad..

Local government units (LGUs) need to invest in the development of a climate-smart agriculture that fits the needs of the community in an effort to ad..

The study aims to assess the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) implementation processes based on recent policy enhancements and to determine additi..

Making higher education more accessible for the poor serves the equity objective. Until today, the main policy tool to achieve this objective is fundi..

The government is considering increasing the number of beneficiaries under the  conditional cash transfer or Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program ..

Risk is a daily reality especially among agricultural producers in developing countries, thus agricultural insurance is of interest to farmers, policy..

This issue of the Development Research News deepens the discussion on federalism, a hot topic in the Philippines today. During the 15th Development Po..

Despite the government's various poverty reduction and social protection programs, poverty remains a social problem the country needs to hurdle. This ..

As leaders from more than 20 countries descend to Manila for a series of meetings, they are expected to be greeted by the red carpet, escorted on allo..

The Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is costly but with minimal impact on educat..