Poor - Matches

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 ..

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

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..

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..

Some 6.4 million who have availed themselves of the government’s health-insurance subsidy for indigents are not at all that poor, according to t..

In 1995, the Philippine government, through the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), instituted the National Health Insurance Program..

An expert from the state-owned Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS) attributed the country’s poor infrastructure to the decline in off..

Regional economic integration in East Asia is characterized initially as a market-driven process of increased trade and foreign direct investment (FDI..

Probing deeper into the poverty picture, this Policy Note examines the extent, composition, and characteristics of the poor, using various rounds of t..

The Philippines has been posting progress in terms of poverty reduction since the early 1990s. However, reversal in the trend was observed in 2006. Fu..

The enactment of two pro-poor housing legislations in the 1990s--the Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA) of 1992 and the Comprehensive Shelter Fi..

With the Philippine government all set to roll out its own version of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program called "Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino ..

With life in this country getting increasingly difficult, small family size is now the most rational choice. Sadly, however, there is still a large nu..