Poverty - Matches

Due to its geographic location, the Philippines is vulnerable to disasters, such as tropical cyclones and storm surges. As such, the adoption of an ad..

The Philippines has a long history of battle against poverty. Unfortunately, despite the government's various poverty reduction and social protection ..

More Filipinos will become food poor if they are not educated, unemployed, bereft of assets, live in conflict areas and those affected by weather dist..

There are few studies in the Philippines that analyze poverty dynamics; and studies that analyze the effects of weather variability on food poverty dy..

Weather is an integral part of our life and weather shocks can have severe implications on income and household consumption. Given evidence that point..

ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) has come quite a distance since its inception in 1967. Today, it stands as one of the world’s old..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies will hold a dissemination forum on "Addressing Transient Poverty: Evaluation of Agricultural Insuranc..

FOUR in every 10 Filipino households have remained or slipped into poverty at least once in a period of three years, according to a study released by ..

ABOUT FOUR in every 10 Filipino households has experienced poverty at least once in the previous three years, with two Mindanao regions leading the co..

A study released by Philippine Institute for Development Studies showed that four in every 10 Filipino households have remained or slipped into povert..

Can success -- or at least a materially comfortable life -- be predicted? Yes, if the Brookings Institution is to be believed: get at least a high sch..

Four in every 10 Filipino households have remained or slipped into poverty at least once in a period of three years, according to a study released by ..

The lack of access to transportation, decent employment and timely government intervention could send a lot of nonpoor households to poor status in th..

Four in every 10 Filipino households have remained or slipped into poverty at least once in a period of three years, latest study by state think tank ..

Natural disasters, together with other shocks, have contributed to the vulnerability of both poor and nonpoor Filipino households to poverty. While th..