Poverty incidence was highest among Indigenous Peoples, fisherfolk and farmers in 2023, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said based on poverty ...

Poverty remains one of the most pressing issues globally, with over 700 million people worldwide living in extreme poverty—on less than P123.70 per day. In the Philippines, the situation is equally ...

I deeply regret that Richard Heydarian’s lack of understanding of Mindanao’s realities led him to draw an unfounded comparison to sub-Saharan Africa. Having been born and raised in Mindanao myself, I ...

MUCH has been said and written about the state of development of Mindanao recently. I will not get into the "Sub-Saharan" debate, but I checked out recent figures that say something about poverty in ...

For generations, the Samar Sea has been a lifeline for coastal communities in Northern Samar and Samar provinces. Fishing is ...

In late 2021, Typhoon Rai, locally known as Supertyphoon Odette, rocked the Caraga and Southern Leyte regions of the Philippines ... that will doom the world’s poorest to not even having ...