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Duterte names new NAPC, PCUP heads

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 06 12:54 PM

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed a new lead convenor of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) and chairman of the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP), Malacañang said Tuesday. Read more »

Dissecting Data: Inflation for the bottom 30 percent

Edson Joseph Guido, ABS-CBN Data Analytics
Updated as of Oct 24 03:39 PM

Inflation for the bottom 30 percent of households based on income picked up to 8 percent in August, 5 percentage points higher compared to the same month last year, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority showed. Read more »

More Filipino families felt hunger in July-September 2018: SWS

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 12 10:19 PM

More Filipinos experienced involuntary hunger in the third quarter of 2018, according to a survey by the Social Weather Stations released Friday. Read more »

ALAMIN: Bakit marami ang tumataya sa lotto?

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 12 09:33 PM

Sa dami ng mga tumataya sa mga lotto outlet, nagbabadya ang lalong paglaki ng ngayo'y P1 bilyong jackpot prize ng 6/58 sa susunod na UltraLotto draw nitong Biyernes. Read more »

Ilang isyu sa politika, nagpapalubha ba sa kahirapan?

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 11 01:49 AM

Tumaas ang bilang ng mga pamilyang Pilipino na nagsasabing sila'y mahirap. Read more »

Nasa 12.2 milyong pamilyang Pinoy naniniwalang 'mahirap' sila: survey

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 10 08:16 PM

Tumaas rin ang mga "food poor" o mga pamilyang nagsabi na pang-mahirap ang kanilang kinakain. Read more »

Palace ‘concerned’ as self-rated poverty rises

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 10 04:08 PM

MANILA - Malacañang on Wednesday expressed concern over the rise in the number of Filipinos who view themselves as poor, even as it vowed to implement measures to ease the burden of the country’s poorest. Read more »

12.2M Filipino families say they are poor; 8 percent are newly-poor: SWS

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 10 07:31 AM

The number of Filipinos who believe they are poor has hit a percentage last seen nearly 4 years ago, according to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) released Wednesday. Read more »

Nutrisyon ng mga bata, apektado rin ng inflation: UNICEF

Aleta Nieva Nishimori, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 10 07:41 AM

MAYNILA - Malaking hamon para sa mga maraming Pilipino ang pagkasyahin ang kita para matiyak na masustansiya pa rin ang ihahain sa lamesa para sa kanilang mga anak sa kabila ng pagtaas ng mga presyo ng bilihin.   Read more »

Still a long way to go for children's rights in PH, says UNICEF exec

Aleta Nieva Nishimori, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 09 08:43 PM

MANILA - A new study on children in the Philippines shows there's still a long way to go in terms of meeting the needs of children in the country, especially kids in Muslim Mindanao.  Read more »

Nigeria, Singapore and India fuel wealth gap - Oxfam

Emma Batha, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Oct 09 07:46 AM

Nigeria, Singapore and India are among countries fueling the gap between the super-rich and poor, aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday as it launched an index spotlighting those nations doing least to bridge the divide. Read more »

Arroyo ally blames 'mismanagement' for quickening inflation

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 07 12:19 PM

A lawmaker who advises House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on economic policies said Sunday that "mismanagement" led to quickening inflation.   Read more »

Taas-presyo, sahod, pangunahing alalahanin ng mga Pinoy: survey

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 27 09:14 PM

Nasa 63 porsiyento ng mga Pinoy ay nag-aalala tungkol sa patuloy na pagtaas ng presyo sa mga bilihin, ayon sa survey. Bukod dito, inaalala rin nila ang umento sa sahod.  Read more »

ALAMIN: Paano pinipili ang mga matutulungan sa 4Ps

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 27 03:18 PM

Layon ng 4Ps na mabigyan ng pinansiyal na ayuda ang mga mahihirap na pamilya para makatulong na maiayos ang kalusugan, nutrisyon, at edukasyon lalo na ng mga bata. Read more »

'Hindi tulog sa pansitan': Effects of measures vs inflation to kick in soon - Palace

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 27 02:40 PM

MANILA - Malacañang on Thursday assured the public that the government’s measures to tame the soaring inflation will kick in soon, after a recent survey of Pulse Asia showed increased public dissatisfaction over how the government addresses the rising prices of goods. Read more »

PH on track to upper middle income status by 2019 - World Bank economist

Warren De Guzman, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 25 12:25 AM

The Philippines is on track to achieving its goal of becoming an upper middle income economy by next year, a World Bank economist said Monday. Read more »

Global goal to end poverty by 2030 unlikely to be met, World Bank says

Sonia Elks, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Sep 19 10:14 PM

The number of people living on less than $1.90 a day has fallen to record low of about 655 million - or 9 percent of the world's population - but a global target of ending extreme poverty by 2030 is unlikely to be met, the World Bank said on Wednesday. Read more »

OPINION: Who’s leading the pack in ASEAN?

Karim Raslan -- Ceritalah ASEAN
Posted at Sep 14 11:21 PM

Sadly, the Philippines with its clapped-out infrastructure, expensive energy and notorious bureaucracy remains the outlier.  Read more »

Akyat ng presyo ng bilihin, pinakamataas nitong Agosto

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 05 09:44 PM

Umarangkada sa 6.4 porsiyento ang bilis ng pagtaas ng presyo ng mga bilihin at serbisyo o 'yung tinatawag na inflation para sa buwan ng Agosto.  Read more »

A Venezuelan family's desperate journey

Rodrigo Almonacid, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 30 12:47 AM

On foot, by bus, on the backs of juddering trucks, like tens of thousands of others they slogged for days along the Pan-American highway through Colombia and Ecuador.  Read more »