A new book by UNICEF and the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) highlights that one in four Filipino ...
Child labor continues to persist within the fishing and aquaculture sectors primarily due to poverty, a practice the ...
MANILA (Reuters) - The typhoon's name was Hagupit, which means "whiplash" in Filipino, and for the poverty-stricken rice farmers, fishermen, village workers and children of the eastern central ...
Scientists warn that storms are becoming more powerful as the planet warms due to human-driven climate change. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Sources: Deininger and Squire, 1996, and Philippines, National Statistics Office, 1994. Although an improvement in income distribution is often accompanied by a decrease in the poverty rate (absent a ...
The death toll from Typhoon Opong (international name: Bualoi) rose to 11 in the Philippines on Saturday as the cyclone bore down on Vietnam, authorities said.