The biggest threats to the Philippines in the next two years are an economic downturn and poverty, according to the World ...

Rural poverty has declined significantly to 4.86% in the fiscal ending March 2024 from 25.7% in 2011-12 mainly driven by government support programmes, said a SBI research released on Friday. Urban ...

Innovative approaches are needed. Rural poverty rates are around 14%, higher than the 10% in metropolitan rates, but is largely invisible. To address this, the Rural Outreach Center (ROC ...

For every 1,000 people, only 0.5 hospital beds are available on average. This needs to be tripled to 1.5 beds, the Department ...

Is poverty in India, especially in rural areas, on the decline? A new study by the State Bank of India's (SBI) research department sees a sharp decline in the poverty ratio and a key reason for that ...

I clearly saw the distinction of the social classes that exist in the Philippines. I noticed that a large proportion of the country’s wealth remains concentrated in the hands of a few families or ...

This means that many people existed at subsistence levels where basic needs such as food, clean water and shelter were often ...

New Delhi, Jan 3 (PTI) Rural poverty has declined significantly to 4.86 per cent in the fiscal ending March 2024 from 25.7 per cent in 2011-12 mainly driven by government support programmes, said a ...

Last week, the Philippine government’s vision of becoming an upper-middle-income country (UMIC) by 2025  — an ambitious yet ...

Notably, consumption patterns at the lower end of the spectrum in rural and urban areas are increasingly becoming similar, reflecting the narrowing of economic disparities. In terms of poverty ...

Budget 2025’s starry aim: Does India need more funds to fuel its cosmic dreams? The gap in monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) has decreased significantly, with the difference between ...