A UNDP and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative report revealed that 3.9% of Filipinos—or 4.47 million people—are ...
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The Manila Times on MSNOpinion

What’s the real game plan?

THE Philippines is enjoying quite a season on the internet these days. First, the unbridled flood control corruption scandal has prompted a large part of the population to ask for the replacement of ...
A UNDP and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative report revealed that 3.9% of Filipinos—or 4.47 million people—are “multidimensionally poor,” with the largest deprivations coming from ...
Last month, tens of thousands of Filipinos took to the streets following a series of revelations that some of the country’s ...
ABOUT 3.9% of the Philippine population can be classified as suffering from “multidimensional” poverty, meaning poor in terms of living standards, education, and health, the United Nations Development ...
Cecilia Oebanda-Pacis founded Voice of the Free in 1991 to help children kidnapped and forced into sex work. Her work is more ...
Half or 50 percent of Filipinos consider themselves poor, a survey from Social Weather Stations (SWS) conducted from ...
The corruption crisis in the Philippines stems from a failure of leadership deeply embedded in the culture of patronage ...
There is much talk of the transition that will lead our societies towards models of production, consumption, and ...
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Philstar.com on MSNOpinion

Mixed thoughts and emotions

The title reflects my state of mind and probably the same for a hundred million Filipinos who don’t know what to make of our dark tales of corruption, abuse of power in the face of our spiritual or ...
The director of apostolates for a Jamaica-based religious community serving the poor in Kingston said Oct. 28 that the ...