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Poverty in the Philippines

Latest Daily Tribune news and analysis on Poverty in the Philippines.

  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

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  3. Ayuda fails poor

    Ayuda fails poor

    Research conducted by the government think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies said that despite years of economic growth, poverty in the…

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