Poverty

ROME: The food crisis in poor countries, coupled with the global economic crisis, has caused a spike in world hunger, with more than one billion people undernourished this year, United Nations food agencies said on Wednesday.

Results of a recent survey found that the number of Filipinos experiencing hunger in the past three months has declined. The Social Weather Stations (SWS) reported that 17.5 percent, or an estimated 3.2 million families have experienced hunger in the third quarter of this year.

MANILA, Philippines – The number of Filipino families who suffered involuntary hunger in the third quarter declined to around 3.4 million from an estimated 3.7 million in the second quarter, the latest household hunger survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine government continues to lag behind its target to reduce poverty by the end of 2015, the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo’s banner project, the Accelerated Hunger-Mitigation Program, focuses on reducing and eventually eradicating hunger in the country. The program is implemented by the Anti-Hunger Task Force (AHTF) composed of about 30 government and non-government organizations led by health chief Francisco Duque.

ANSWERING the question let me cut to the chase, and offer my answer to the question which entitles this piece. As a professional economist who has directed national sample surveys of Philippine poverty dozens of times for over two decades, I think that the current global slowdown is not worsening it, in the same way…

LAGOS (Xinhua) – The World Bank says low-income countries will remain under the shadow of the global financial crisis for a long period, estimating cases of extreme poverty to rise in 2010, the News Agency of Nigeria reported on Wednesday.

I wrote this in August 2002 when GMA was still new to the job and the promise was high. “When you compare statistics around the region it doesn’t matter what it is, the Philippines is either at or close to the worst.

Prices of galunggong and rice rose faster than the income of poor Filipinos, hurting the quality of their life, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) reported Tuesday. Romulo Virola, secretary-general of the board, said that from 2003 to 2006, prices of rice and galunggong went up faster than per capita income, and that poverty worsened.

The Times’ front-page story “Fewer Filipinos can afford medical care, says ADB study” on Tuesday, September 8, gave concrete figures to something obvious to most thinking Filipinos.

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga, Philippines – President Arroyo ordered yesterday the creation of provincial anti-hunger task forces, starting with the six “most food-poor” provinces in Mindanao.

MANILA, Philippines — It’s an order well-meant but lacking in funds. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), in a statement, said that it could not yet accommodate the 300,000 additional families President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered included in a government poverty-reduction program by next year.

The private sector is increasing its role in poverty alleviation, and best practices among firms should be shared to reduce poverty in Southeast Asia, experts said during a ceremony on Tuesday.

We are happy to note that there is now more involvement of local agencies and authorities in the implementation of poverty solutions. The Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) and various state agencies namely the Department of Health, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and…

P5-B rural infrastructure plans partly funded by ADB   ATOTAL of P5-billion rural infrastructure projects funded with assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) that aims to combat poverty in 779 of the country’s poorest municipalities are currently being implemented by the Department of Agriculture, an official said Monday.

SANTIAGO CITY, Philippines – Finance Secretary Margarito Teves sees the growing population of Filipinos as one reason why benefits from the country’s economic upswing have not trickled down to the poor.

MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo has created anti-hunger task forces nationwide to facilitate the implementation of the government’s accelerated hunger mitigation program.

MANILA, Philippines – The Social Weather Stations (SWS) yesterday said that one out of two Filipino families considered themselves mahirap or poor in the past three months.

MANILA, Philippines — More than nine million Filipino families consider themselves poor, while nearly two in five say they are “food poor,” according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.

MANILA – ASIA’S economic growth and social order is being threatened by a lack of equality that has seen hundreds of millions of people left in poverty, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned on Thursday.

Steady economic growth may have been President Gloria Arroyo’s biggest achievement in her nine years in office, but this did not solve the most pressing problems of this developing Southeast Asian country—joblessness, poverty and hunger.

MANILA, Philippines – The latest survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) released yesterday showed that one in five Filipino families or about 3.7 million families have experienced hunger in the past three months.

More than 1.2 million Filipino families, representing two in every five households, do not have electricity in their homes. One in five families also has no access to safe water supply.

POVERTY SITUATION IN THE PHILIPPINES IN 2007 (Selected Non-Income Poverty Indicators from the 2007 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey)

Like black and white, war and peace, abundance and famine — greed and poverty is another inexorable, radical contrast of epic proportion and karmic relation. The world has seen the face of corporate avarice in the Enron debacle. It has witnessed greed’s aftermath, head bowed with eyes downcast in shame and disgrace, as the 150-year…

Special Report: The Millenium Dev’t Goals   LESS than six years remain before the Millennium Declaration reaches 2015 as the target date to halve extreme poverty in all its forms—and the world finds itself mired in an economic crisis that is unprecedented in its severity and global dimensions.

About 14.4 million, or 40.8 percent of Filipino children in 2006, live in poverty, a government report shows.

The number of poor Filipino households was expected to go up this year because of the global economic crisis, an official of the National Statistical Coordination Board said Thursday.

Filipinos are trumping all apparent attempts to prevent the holding of the May 2010 elections, through Charter change or other means. Even the legal Left is gearing to field four senatorial candidates through Makabayan, a regular political party its stalwarts have just set up.

MANILA, Philippines—The global economic downturn, which recently pulled the Philippines down to its slowest growth in a decade, will result in the country’s failure to meet its poverty-reduction goal by 2010 and is expected to increase the number of poor Filipinos.