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

Youths are pictured at at a slum area in Baseco, Tondo city, metro Manila MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 15.5% last year from 18.1% in 2021, with rising food prices ...

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

Department of Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. welcomed the drop in Philippine food poverty in the fourth ...

MANILA, Philippines — The biggest threats to the Philippines in the next two years are an economic downturn and poverty, ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) linked the sharp decline in food poverty in the fourth quarter of 2025 to the expansion of government rice programs and other food supply ...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 15.5% last year from 18.1% in 2021, with rising food prices limiting the reduction in the number of poor, the government's statistics agency ...