News

World Bank shareholders approve $13 billion capital increase

Heather Scott, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 22 09:13 AM

World Bank shareholders approved a "historic" increase in the bank's lending capacity Saturday after the United States backed a reform package that curbs loans and charges more for higher income countries like China.  Read more »

In wealthy Germany, growing up poor is a dead-end street

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 20 12:45 PM

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel touted Germany as a country "in which we live well and happily" during her re-election campaign. But those words ring hollow to the one in five children living in poverty in Europe's top economy, with little prospect of climbing the social ladder. Read more »

ANALYSIS: No fun coping with Asia’s fastest-rising consumer prices

Jose Galang -- Your Business
Posted at Apr 05 01:52 PM

Inflation in the Philippines is now fastest among Asian economies.  Read more »

Manila's homeless set to move into more empty homes if official handover delayed

Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Mar 29 08:25 AM

MANILA - Thousands of homeless Filipinos are ready to illegally occupy empty government housing if a plan to hand over these buildings is delayed, campaigners said, underlining a growing crisis in one of South-east Asia's poorest countries. Read more »

Estudyanteng may tangang walis tambo: Mas ok na 'yun kaysa tambay

Aleta Nieva-Nishimori, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 21 05:37 PM

Pagiging pagtuturo ang nais na ipursigeng propesyon ni Christopher Dahn Saliendra, ang graduating student na nag-trending sa social media dahil sa kaniyang profile picture na hawak ang isang walis tambo. Read more »

Pang-aabuso, nararanasan ng 1 sa 5 kababaihan

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 14 12:18 AM

Isa sa limang babaeng may asawa ay biktima ng pang-aabuso. Read more »

'Demagogues' can rise when institutions are weak, SC justice warns

Patrick Quintos, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 12 09:53 PM

MANILA - A Supreme Court magistrate on Monday warned of "demagogues" and "fascists" who can arise in a democracy when institutions that guard the truth are weakened.   Read more »

Street life in Manila

Dondi Tawatao, Reuters
Posted at Feb 01 10:58 PM

Young boys swim in a puddle on a road under repair in Tondo, Manila on Thursday. Impoverished communities in the capital lack the proper spaces for play for many children. Read more »

ANALYSIS: Can the people taste economic growth?

Jose Galang – Your Business
Posted at Jan 23 11:20 PM

With the population growing to 104.9 million during the year, the national output, as measured by the gross domestic product, translated to a slower per-person increase of 5.0 percent in 2017, compared to 5.2 percent in 2016. Read more »

Global unemployment down but working poverty rampant: UN

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 23 08:27 AM

The global unemployment rate is expected to tick down in 2018, the United Nations said Monday, while warning that far too many workers still live in desperate poverty.    Read more »

OPINION: Begging the question in constitutional reform

Edmund S. Tayao, UST Dep't of Political Science; LOGODEF*
Posted at Jan 21 11:12 AM

There is a need to further study reforms, specifically the ones we want to have institutionalized. This is the only way we can avoid begging the question in constitutional reform. We can’t continue to push or prevent charter change based only from where we sit and which group we belong and protect. If this continues, then perhaps there’s really nothing we can do. Read more »

Fewer Filipino families considered themselves 'poor' in 2017: SWS

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 20 04:58 AM

One out of three Filipino families surmounted poverty in 2017, a new survey from the Social Weather Stations showed Friday. Read more »

10M Filipino families say they're poor by end-2017: survey

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 18 08:48 AM

Forty-four percent of 1,200 respondents in the December poll considered themselves as poor. This translates to around 10 million families, the SWS said in a statement. Read more »

'Duterte's Kitchen'

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 17 07:22 PM

A man inquires for food on Wednesday at a branch of "Duterte's Kitchen" in Cubao, Quezon City, where hungry folks get free rice porridge.  Read more »

OPINION: Pursuing federalism is not a question of time, it is a question of opportunity

Edmund Tayao, UST Dept. of Political Science; LOGODEF*
Posted at Jan 15 01:17 PM

Precisely the reason why we have to revise the constitution is to zero in on the problem of implementation, caused by none other than a non-functioning, even non-existent political system.  Read more »

Down but not out: French homeless man takes Twitter by storm

Alexandre Hielard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 12 05:37 PM

A homeless man has become a social media sensation, chalking up nearly 20,000 followers on Twitter with his account of life on the mean streets of Paris. Read more »

Council leader wants beggars removed before UK royal wedding

Michael Holden, Reuters
Posted at Jan 04 11:01 PM

LONDON - Beggars need to be cleared by police from the streets of Windsor before the wedding of Prince Harry to girlfriend Meghan Markle because their “detritus” is presenting the picturesque English town in a poor light, the local council leader has said. Read more »

A hard knock life for London's rough sleepers

Reuters
Posted at Dec 21 11:14 PM

LONDON - Outside London's Piccadilly theatre where tickets cost up to 110 pounds and a banner advertising the musical "Annie" reads "It's a hard knock life", Bryan and Kevin sleep in small tents on the street.   Read more »

DSWD ups conditional cash for beneficiaries

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 20 02:12 PM

The Department of Social Welfare and Development assured conditional cash transfer (CCT) beneficiaries of a P200 increase because of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion law.  Read more »

DSWD launches #HelpTheHomelessPH

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 20 01:33 PM

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Wednesday launched its #HelpTheHomelessPH initiative as part of efforts to help poor Filipinos who have been living on the streets.    Read more »