Despite the remarkable economic performance of the Philippines in recent years, poverty remains a core policy issue …. And with a relatively young population, the poverty situation concerns largely children who are at the critical stages of … poverty through data collected from national surveys and administrative records of government agencies. The estimations show …

Poverty incidence in the Philippines is rising based on the national official data released by the National Statistical … Coordination Board. Poverty incidence among population rose from 24.9 percent in 2003 to 26.4 percent in 2006 and then inched up … achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The disparities across the regions remain wide both in terms of poverty and …