MANILA – Poverty incidence in the Philippines has eased little over the last seven years, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) said on Tuesday, adding that the main difference between being poor last year and being poor in 2006 is that it’s become harder to escape poverty as of 2012.

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MANILA, Philippines – Women are forced to resort to desperate measures to ensure job tenure and security.

MANILA, Philippines – The economic benefits of the credit rating upgrade the Philippines won from global ratings firm Fitch Ratings come in two waves, businessmen and industry analysts said.

Germany saw activity fall for the first time since November Activity in the eurozone’s services and manufacturing sectors continued to fall in April, a survey has indicated, with even German output declining.

Washington — More than three years after the end of the global recession, sluggish activity across rich and poor economies is confounding policymakers who expected more by now and raising concerns that options for kick-starting growth are increasingly limited.

US manufacturing growth slowed in April The US manufacturing sector grew at its slowest pace in six months during April, a survey has suggested.

MANILA, Philippines — An estimated 52 percent of Filipino families, or 10.6 million, consider themselves poor, the results of a new Social Weather Stations survey showed.

ECONOMIC GROWTH has failed to make a dent on poverty, data released by the government yesterday indicated, with the rate — equivalent to a little under three out of 10 Filipinos — unchanged in the last six years.

DESPITE ECONOMIC GROWTHS 10% of Filipino families rated ‘extremely poor’ Economic growth over the past six years hardly made a dent in poverty incidence in the Philippines, as the percentage of Filipinos living below the poverty line remained practically the same between 2006 and 2012, official statistics showed.

MANILA, Philippines – Poverty incidence in the country practically remained unchanged with almost three out of 10 FIlipinos living below the poverty line in the first half of 2012, the National Statistical Coordinating Board (NSCB) revealed on Tuesday

Agri, infra to help bring down poverty incidence Rocamora: We expect questions from the opposition MANILA – The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) reported on Tuesday that the poverty incidence, or the share of the population whose income is below poverty line, is barely unchanged at 27.9% for the first semester of 2012 compared to…

The Philippines has failed to make headway in cutting rampant poverty, with more than one in four citizens deemed poor despite the country’s economic growth, according to census figures released Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – The country’s poverty incidence stood at 27.9% in the first semester of 2012, virtually unchanged from the same period in 2006 and 2009.

More than 1 of 4 Filipinos poor – survey Despite the unprecedented economic growth and the huge budget allotted by the government to its poverty-alleviation project, the number of poor Filipinos has not changed, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).

MANILA – Poverty incidence in the Philippines has eased little over the last seven years, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) said on Tuesday, adding that the main difference between being poor last year and being poor in 2006 is that it’s become harder to escape poverty as of 2012.

MANILA, Philippines – Natural disasters like typhoons kept many poor Filipinos below the poverty line, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) said as it released Philippine poverty data for the first half of 2012.

THE government is yet to make a significant headway in reducing poverty in the Philippines based on a report released by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) on Tuesday.

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Thursday that almost 90 percent of children deaths from diarrheal diseases are directly linked to contaminated water, lack of sanitation, or inadequate hygiene.

Singapore to crackdown on domestic workers coming to country. SINGAPORE: The Singapore government has said it will begin to crackdown on domestic workers coming into the country looking for work in the Southeast Asian country, a new memo from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said. It added that women suspected of applying for tourist visas…

PARIS – Earth was cooling until the end of the 19th century and a hundred years later, the planet’s surface was on average warmer than at any time in the previous 1,400 years, according to climate records presented on Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines (2nd UPDATE) – A month before the May 13 polls, Vice President Jejomar Binay’s daughter, Nancy, and former Las Piñas Rep Cynthia Villar broke into the top 3 despite being first-timers in the senatorial race.

The disclosure by the Bureau of Internal Revenue of the list of top individual income tax payers only served to mislead ordinary citizens on the behavior of the rich and famous insofar as paying the correct taxes is concerned. The list did not capture the true amounts that individuals—tycoons and business executives in particular—actually paid…

Mayors planning to extend VAT-exemption to subdivisions on their association dues, consider this as fair warning. BIR Commissioner Kim Jacinto-Henares has said she would not hesitate to publish the names of mayors who succumb to popular calls from homeowners’ associations to exempt their monthly dues from the expanded value-added taxation.

LONDON – The struggling economies of Greece, Portugal and Spain will probably not grow again until next year and former Celtic tiger Ireland is likely to purr rather than roar, a Reuters poll suggested on Monday.

IN 2021, the Philippines (PHL) will celebrate two monumental events: First, the country’s 500-year anniversary since the arrival of Magellan on March 16, 1521. Second, the introduction of Christianity by Spanish missionaries, and the onset of the Philippine Renaissance, brought by the growing young population, good governance, environmental sustainability, and economic stability that the country…

There is a need to speed up the implementation of necessary programs and policies to improve the competitiveness of Philippine exports, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said on Monday.

MANILA – Philippine small and medium enterprises (SMEs) will fall by the wayside once Asean economic integration comes into force by 2015, a state-run think tank said on Monday.

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WASHINGTON – Global warming, a new offensive against poverty — the World Bank has overhauled its agenda to prove its relevance in the face of competition from rich emerging nations, notably China.