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MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Saturday said the pilot run for its food stamp program will begin on July 18 in Tondo, Manila, benefitting an initial number of 50 families.…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu- A total of 470 Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries from Carcar City in south Cebu have already graduated, according to Assistant Secretary Ma. Evelyn Macapobre of the Department of Social Welfare and Development…
MANILA, Philippines — More Filipino families saw themselves as food poor in the first quarter of this year, rising from 8.7 million in December 2022 to 10.6 million in March 2023, according to a Social Weather Stations…
The story is told about a little boy who approached the priest after the mass and told him: “Father, I would like to give you my allowance money which I saved this week.” When the priest asked…
Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world’s poor people earn their living…
Subjectivity in survey data cannot be avoided. The simple act of asking a sample of people certain questions, and recording their subjective answers, entails faith that the data will be useful to you. Surveys of voters’ intentions…
The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is the government’s first true venture into solving the great poverty problem by identifying and targeting poor people to receive benefits directly, rather than by assuming that much benefit from untargeted…
Aware of distractions and forewarned of disruptions, the natural question is “What then?” I have frequently over the last two decades stated my conclusion that we are vulnerable, individually and collectively, to external forces and influences proportionate…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Councilor Rey Gealon filed earlier on Friday, Dec. 9, 2022, a resolution urging the Office of the City Mayor to conduct an anti-poverty summit. “The proposed measure is relevant to the…
No doubt, agriculture now deserves top attention among the three economic sectors, over industry (mostly manufacturing) and services (with its mix of low- and high-value activities). The global food crisis that COVID-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
You have people say it over and over again that the Philippines is a poor country, and thus we shouldn’t expect to have the things that richer countries have. Like good health care, such as that of…
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis celebrated a low-key Christmas Eve Mass made somber by the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday and said people should feel obliged to help the needy because Jesus himself was born a poor outcast. The Mass…
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