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Poverty Alleviation

Latest Daily Tribune news and analysis on Poverty Alleviation.

  2. DOF

    DOF says ADB funds will cushion crisis impact

    The Philippines will use $1.5 billion (around P90.8 billion) in financing pledged by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to fund government measures aimed at…

    2 MIN READ

  3. Kahirapang damang-dama

    Kahirapang damang-dama

    Kakambal na ng bawat batang Pilipinong naipapanganak ang utang ng bansa, at kaakibat ng kanilang paglaki ang lumulobong presyo ng mga bilihin. Kasabay ng mga…

    2 MIN READ

  5. Pacquiao, Tiu Laurel team up to fight poverty

    Pacquiao, Tiu Laurel team up to fight poverty

    Manny Pacquiao and Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. are coordinating NAPC and DA programs to improve livelihoods and assistance for farmers,…

    2 MIN READ

  7. Pacquiao is not the solution

    Pacquiao is not the solution

    Pacquiao’s perspectives appear to fall short of the political insights and depth needed to tackle diverse and intricate issues such as poverty alleviation.

    2 MIN READ

  8. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. swears in Manny Pacquiao as the new anti-poverty czar of his administration in Malacanang on Tuesday.

    Marcos taps Pacquiao as anti-poverty czar

    Boxing icon and former senator Manny Pacquiao has been appointed lead convenor of the National Anti-Poverty Commission by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.,…

    2 MIN READ

  9. A graph shows the decline in poverty incidence in Northern Samar. The provincial government on Thursday welcomed the record-low poverty rate, saying the improvement provides a strong foundation for sustaining and expanding its poverty-reduction programs.

    Northern Samar poverty drops sharply

    Northern Samar’s poverty incidence fell to a record-low 12.5 percent in 2025, with nearly 12,000 fewer families classified as poor, according to PSA data.

    1 MIN READ

  10. SECRETARY Ralph Recto

    Poverty is over

    You paid P700 to enter a building designed to remind you that you’re above the poverty line, but still below the imported ham.

    3 MIN READ

  13. Hope on hold AKAP, short for Ayuda para sa Kapos ang Kita Program, faces zero allocation in the proposed 2026 budget, leaving countless local governments and community projects high and dry. In this file photo from last December, residents of Baseco, Manila, start lining up before sunrise at Benigno Aquino Elementary School, braving the morning chill and long queues for confiscated frozen mackerel distributed by authorities — a small taste of aid that AKAP would have helped sustain.

    The poverty industry

    Anything less isn’t poverty alleviation but poverty management — and managing poverty is just a fancy way of accepting it.

    3 MIN READ

  17. We need less politics, more service

    We need less politics, more service

    Why don’t our politicians really eliminate poverty? Because poverty serves a purpose — for them. Poverty gives them power.

    2 MIN READ