MANILA, Philippines — Self-rated poor Filipino families significantly increased last year despite indicators showing that they have already lowered their living standards, the fourth quarter ...

MANILA, Philippines — An estimated 2.8 million Filipino families are considered “newly poor” in the last quarter of 2024, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey on self-rated poverty showed.

ABOUT 63 percent of Filipino families rated themselves as “poor” in December 2024, the highest level since 64 percent in November 2003, according to the Social Weather Survey (SWS) on Wednesday.

Based on the survey results released Wednesday, 63 percent of Filipino families rated themselves as poor, 11 percent as borderline (in between poor and not poor), and 26 percent said they are not ...

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino families who consider themselves poor continued to increase in the fourth quarter of 2024, with half of them—the highest in more than 20 years — rating ...

The DSWD cannot do it by its lonesome but in close coordination with other agencies using a whole-of-government approach” The Philippine Development Plan ...

A week later, their Social Weather Report noted a sharp increase in hunger among those who consider themselves as poor and not poor. It found that “25.9 percent of Filipino families experienced ...

Just like neighbours in the Philippines, a neighbourhood of about 40 Filipino families in Maddington, Western Australia have been celebrating Christmas together for the past 6 years. The sense of ...