Poverty

MANILA, Philippines – Despite the National Economic and Development Authority’s (Neda) expectations that economic growth will be within targets, economists said the government still has to deal with a bigger problem—increasing poverty as a result of the difficult years from 2008 to 2010.

The Philippines’ existing stimulus package failed to further reduce poverty and boost economic growth in the short term, affecting the government’s capacity to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015, according to a joint report by the United Nations and Asian Development Bank (ADB).

In 2005, the UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura then provided an overview of what has been achieved between 1999 and 2005 when director of nations have closed rank with him in tackling regional problems specially in the eradication of extreme poverty in developing countries with the Education For All (EFA) projects. Focused on the six…

Rising prices of sugar and tilapia could worsen the hunger incidence in the country, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said on Thursday.

Baguio City (6 February) — The Department of Social Welfare and Development will intensify its anti-hunger mitigation programs for this year to address the rising hunger incidence attributed to the typhoons that devastated the country late last year.

AT least 12 million indigenous people in the Philippines continue to suffer from poverty and human rights abuses, a United Nations State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples report said.

MANILA, Philippines – Nearly three million indigent Filipinos benefited from government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), a poverty alleviation strategy implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

We Filipinos have always believed our country’s so fertile that if you stuck a stick anywhere in its soil it would grow. This is why the most recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) report that involuntary hunger in our country is reaching record levels gives you quite a jolt.

Enemies of the Arroyo administration immediately seized on the Social Weather Station (SWS) data to pillory President Gloria Arroyo over the latest hunger and poverty survey results.

MANILA, Philippines – The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) yesterday attributed the rise in hunger incidence in the country to the impact of typhoons “Ondoy” and “Pepeng” and not to inflation.

MANILA, Philippines – Involuntary hunger has reached record numbers, with almost one in four Filipino households going hungry in the past three months, according to a Social Weather Stations survey.

AMELITA, 33 YEARS OLD, USED to work as a server in a restaurant, while her 59-year-old husband was a taxi driver. Between them, the couple managed to save enough to begin building a house on a vacant piece of land.

MANILA, Philippines – The acquisition of more than P2 million worth of access cards for cheap rice for the poor during the food crisis last year was unnecessary and the funds could have just been used to directly purchase the staple, a Commission on Audit (COA) report stated.

MANILA, Philippines – The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in a new study on poverty, warned that unless the Philippine economy is able to shift to higher growth trajectory, the country might be “stuck in a poverty trap.”

THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) said the Philippines is the only Southeast Asian country to have recorded an increase in the absolute number of poor people since 1990.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipinos continue to suffer from hunger and malnutrition despite efforts of the Arroyo administration to reduce poverty, a latest government survey revealed yesterday. A survey conducted by the Department of Science and Technology’s Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) showed that “the nutrition situation of Filipinos has not improved from 2005 to…

MANILA, Philippines – The number of Filipino families who consider themselves poor slightly declined, following typhoons “Ondoy” and “Pepeng” that hit the country, according to a latest survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS).

The proportion of families who experienced involuntary hunger increased nationwide by 1.3 points—the equivalent of an additional 300,000 families—after the onslaught of Tropical Storms “Ondoy” and “Pepeng,” according to a special Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.

The number of Filipinos who experienced hunger increased by about 300,000 after tropical storm Ondoy and Typhoon Pepeng hit the country, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) reported.

MANILA, Philippines – The World Bank (WB) has extended a $405-million loan to the Philippines to help improve the government’s social welfare programs aimed at reducing poverty.

THE annual meeting of the Philippine Economic Society (PES) held last week ended with a panel discussion on the outlook for the Philippine economy, now a regular feature of the organization’s yearly gathering. The panel—composed of PES past presidents Dondon Paderanga, Arsi Balisacan and yours truly, along with incoming president Art Corpuz—focused on three key…

35% NOW LIVE BELOW POVERTY LINE MORE people slipped below the poverty line this year, making it almost impossible for the country to attain the Millennium Development Goal of reducing poverty by half by 2015, economists claimed.

ANALYSIS The Philippines is one of the few economies that managed to grow despite a global recession, but poverty reduction remains a challenge for this developing Asian economy.

MANILA, Philippines – More Filipino families consider themselves poor in the past three months, according to a latest survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS).

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have launched a P3.2-million joint anti-hunger effort to help women in two of the poorest provinces in the country and in slum relocation sites in Metro Manila find affordable ways to augment the diet and livelihood opportunities available to their families.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines again broke the world record for sending the loudest voice worldwide calling for an end to extreme poverty, with 36.1 million Filipinos participating in various events during the three-day global Stand Up, Take Action Against Poverty campaign of the United Nations Millennium Campaign (UNMC) last Oct. 16 to 18.

MANILA, Philippines – The World Bank said the Philippines would need to grow between six and seven percent on a sustained basis to help arrest its rising poverty incidence.

THE incidence of hunger in the Philippines is “serious,” according to an international global hunger survey.

To strengthen the government’s anti-poverty programs, the House of Representatives passed another landmark bill in an attempt to finally break “transgenerational” poverty and substantially reduce the number of extremely poor Filipinos.

The hunger problem in the Philippines was categorized as “serious” and ranked the country 34th among 84 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI), according to a report prepared by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide.