Poverty

Some militant groups have recently asked President Aquino to stop the rise of oil prices. Fact is, world markets dictate oil prices; a Philippine president can’t have any impact on this. The whole world is suffering due to the conflicts in the Middle East that affect oil supply and future assuredness of supply. That has…

A ranking member of the House opposition said the minority in the chamber may seek an inves-tigation into the alleged additional P2 billion infused into the contro-versial conditional cash transfer (CCT) program being implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

Up to 4.12 million Filipinos may slide into poverty this year with the unabated rise in food prices, according to a Asian Development Bank (ADB) study released yesterday.

THE Philippines is “close” in achieving most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, according to a new World Bank report.

LET’S help the Palace with some numbers. Not impeachment votes in the Senate, Mala-cañang’s No. 1 worry, but something that really matters to ordinary Filipinos who are the avowed bosses of President Benigno Aquino 3rd: hunger and poverty figures.

When the new Social Weather Stations survey showed that more Filipinos were experiencing hunger and poverty under his administration, P-Noy couldn’t believe what he was hearing. The nationwide survey that covered 1,200 respondents from March 4 to 7 showed that 20.5 percent of the families polled said they experienced hunger, and that 51 percent considered…

As critics of President Aquino spotlight the failure of his administration’s P21.5 billion conditional cash transfer (CCT) program after the recent Social Weather Station (SWS) survey showing an increase in the number of poor and hungry Filipinos, the Palace yesterday went on a publicity overdrive, saying the program is being stepped up and had claimed…

MANILA, Philippines – More Filipinos experienced “involuntary” hunger and considered themselves poor in the past three months, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealed yesterday.

A March 4 to 7 poll conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) on self-rated poverty and hunger found a sharp rise in number under President Aquino’s administration, with 51 percent of the respondents saying they feel poor and 20.5 percent, composed of 4.1 million Filipino familes going hungry

MANILA, Philippines – The Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) of the United States has noted the country’s progress in mobilizing the $434-million grant aimed at reducing poverty in the Philippines.

BENEFICIARIES of the P21-billion Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program had been misidentified by the government, a House leader said on Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines –  Davao City Rep. Karlo Nograles has asked Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon Soliman to submit quarterly reports on the implementation of the P22-billion conditional cash transfer (CCT) program.

MANILA, Philippines – More than 15 million households nationwide have no access to potable water while some 273 municipalities remain waterless, according to Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr.

MANILA, Philippines – It’s been called a “life-saver” to impoverished families but to former Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. and 2 barangay officials, the P21 billion conditional cash transfer (CCT) program allocation in the 2011 national budget is an unconstitutional campaign and a “grave abuse of discretion of the Executive Department.”

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – The implementation of the national government’s conditional cash transfer under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps to help alleviate the living conditions of the country’s poorest of the poor is being set back by the fact that some beneficiaries do not belong to marginalized families.

Empowering the Filipino People MANILA, Philippines – We cannot overemphasize the importance of good governance and good government in defeating mass poverty – particularly now that financial crises, as in mid-1997, have dampened optimistic expectations about globalization and growth in the face of economic recession, calamities/ climate change, and violent uprisings in the Middle East…

Empowering the Filipino People MANILA, Philippines – The recent domino-like outcomes of people’s uprisings in many closed societies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), caused the collapse of the 23 year-old dictatorship of Tunisia’s President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and the 30-year regime of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak. These replicas of our…

MANILA, Philippines — The P21-billion Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program of the Aquino government will not reduce poverty, according to a United Nations expert on social development.

The high economic growth rates that the government has been reporting has no meaning for the poor since they have not benefited at all from the supposed economic gains in terms of uplifting their conditions, the World Bank (WB) said in its latest update on the country.

CEBU, Philippines – Aside from financial assistance it will grant to the so-called “poorest of the poor,” the Department of Social Welfare and Development will be allowing beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4P’s) a P10,000 loan to start a livelihood.

Using a revised computing method, the number of poor Filipinos is expected to significantly drop when data covering the Aquino administration start to filter in simply by reducing the computation of those under poverty line from those earning P41 per person per day to just P37 per person per day. The amount is supposedly the…

MANILA, Philippines – Only two out of 1,000 Filipino families were lifted out of poverty between 2006 and 2009, according to a National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) survey released yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines—The widening gap between the rich and poor calls for an equal, if not greater, response from local businesses to help raise the living standards of families at the “bottom of the pyramid.”

MANILA, Philippines – Opposition lawmakers urged the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to conduct a monthly accounting of its disbursements from the P22-billion conditional cash transfer (CCT) fund.     

MANILA, Philippines – The National Food Authority (NFA), the state-owned grains agency, will no longer provide subsidized rice to the poor as this role would now be transferred to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

Funds from controversial Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Subsidy Program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) under its chief, Corazon “Dinky” Soliman, as predicted, have been going to families who can hardly be considered the poorest of the poor.

It was pretty disappointing that Economic Secretary Dondon Paderanga was not able to give a more spirited defense of the administration’s conditional cash transfer program when it was attacked, ever so gently, by Sen. Bongbong Marcos during the FOCAP forum last week. Sen. Marcos raised the growth versus equity thing… that P-Noy is sacrificing growth…

TACLOBAN CITY — The government will merge three anti-poverty programs in a bid to enhance efficiency in providing assistance to extremely poor families in the next six years, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon J. Soliman said in a recent briefing here.

POOR PINOYS: The latest survey said that 18.1 percent of Filipinos who were polled claimed to have experienced hunger in the past three months and that 49 percent considered themselves poor.

MANILA, Philippines – More Filipino families claimed to have experienced hunger at least once in the last three months, according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.