Poverty

(Philstar.com), 5 Nov 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Four out of five Filipinos said their lives got worse in the past 12 months, a new Social Weather Stations survey suggested.

by Gabriel Pabico Lalu, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 15 Oct 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Despite 71 percent of Filipino families saying they got financial assistance from the government, a recent survey revealed that at least two-thirds claimed they received aid only once.

by Ian Nicolas Cigaral (Philstar.com), 29 Sep 2020 MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE 1 1:06 p.m., Sept. 29) — Around 2 million Filipinos would slide back to poverty this year because of the pandemic, nearly erasing gains over the past 5 years and making a rebound to pre-pandemic growth a struggle for the Philippines.

by Krissy Aguilar, Inquirer, 27 Sep 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Some 7.6 million Filipino households experienced involuntary hunger in the past three months, the highest hunger incidence since 2014, results of a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed Sunday.

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by Pia Lee-Brago (The Philippine Star), 22 Sep 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed an additional 150 million children into a multidimensional poverty that is deprived of education, health, housing, nutrition and sanitation, a new United Nations study revealed.

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by Associated Press, 11 Sep 2020 GENEVA — The United Nations independent expert on poverty is warning that the worst impacts from the coronavirus pandemic on poverty are yet to come, and that measures taken by governments to protect people so far have been insufficient.

by Leila B. Salaverria, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 11 Sep 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Poverty could worsen next year due to the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the urban rather than the rural areas might bear most of the brunt, acting Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua said on Thursday.

by Gabriel Pabico Lalu, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 14 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Seventy-nine percent or four in five Filipinos have claimed that their lives worsened in the last 12 months, a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released Thursday has shown.

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By Christine Cudis, 4 Aug 2020 MANILA – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Tuesday said there are only 14.1 million family beneficiaries eligible to receive assistance under the government’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP).

By Lourdes O. Pilar, Philstar, 21 Jun 2020 MORE THAN 200,000 Filipinos in Metro Manila made it past the poverty threshold in 2018, according to new data derived from poverty incidence estimates by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

by Ratziel San Juan (Philstar.com), 18 Jun 2020 MANILA, Philippines (Update 1, 11:56 a.m.) — A large majority of Filipinos have been found to be worse off compared to a year ago, according to the results of a Social Weather Stations survey released Thursday morning.

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By Merlina Hernando-Malipot, Manila Bulletin, 13 Jun 2020 Believing that every child has an inherent and inviolable right to health and survival, a child rights group called for an end to child labor to give children the chance to thrive and develop to their fullest potential.

by Genshen L. Espedido, BusinessWorld, 2 Jun 2020 THE Increase in urban poverty as a result of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is not expected to last, but the countryside represents longer-term problems, National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Acting Secretary Karl Kendrick T. Chua said.

by Gabriel Pabico Lalu, 21 May 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The number of Filipinos who were hungry because of lack of available food nearly doubled while most areas were under the COVID-19 lockdowns, a survey from Social Weather Stations (SWS) noted.

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By Cai Ordinario, BusinessMirror, 7 Feb 2020 THE Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said it is seeking to amend the methodology for computing the poverty threshold, which could result in an increase in the amount needed by individuals to stay out of poverty.

by Helen Flores (The Philippine Star), 26 Jan 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Some 2.1 million Filipino families experienced involuntary hunger in the fourth quarter of 2019, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said in its latest survey.

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By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 24 Dec 2019 The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) plans to give out a total of P350 million next year to jumpstart livelihood programs in poor communities.

With poverty incidence falling to 16.6% in 2018, the Philippine government says it is on track to meet its target of 14% by 2022 by Ralf Rivas, Rappler, 6 Dec 2019 MANILA, Philippines – Poverty incidence among the Philippine population fell to 16.6% in 2018 from 23.3% in 2015, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) announced…

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3 economists who study poverty win Nobel Prize Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Michael October 15, 2019 STOCKHOLM — Two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a third from Harvard University won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for groundbreaking research into what works and what doesn’t in the fight to reduce…

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by Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 14 Oct 2019 Social media may teem with clashing opinions over many issues, but some traits bound Filipinos like being conformist, religious and traditional, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).

By: Ben O. de Vera, INQInquirer Business, 14 Oct 2019 Social media may teem with clashing opinions over many issues, but some traits bound Filipinos like being conformist, religious and traditional, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).

by Krissy Aguilar, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sep 12, 2019 MANILA, Philippines—Poverty has been dislodged by marriage and family matters as the top reasons girls drop out of school, according to Education Secretary Leonor Briones.