After all, functional literacy is not just an education issue — it is an economic and social concern as well. The government ...

"The corruption scandal exposes the truth: infrastructure budgets are Manila’s piggy bank, the regions get the mud" FIFTY percent. Not a statistic—a ...

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 ...

Cecilia Oebanda-Pacis founded Voice of the Free in 1991 to help children kidnapped and forced into sex work. Her work is more ...

Half of Filipino families perceive themselves as poor, according to a survey from the Social Weather Survey (SWS) published ...

Half or 50 percent of Filipinos consider themselves poor, a survey from Social Weather Stations (SWS) conducted from ...

Former President Benigno Aquino III’s famous quote and campaign slogan — that there will be no poor Filipinos if corruption is eradicated — is more important than ...

Recent protests against political corruption in the Philippines led to violent clashes at the presidential palace. The ...

Filipinos have been protesting against the theft of public funds for flood defenses by corrupt politicians. The protesters ...

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

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 ...

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 ...