Yet physical decay is only the surface symptom of a deeper, more devastating crisis. Corruption remains a structural feature ...

"(Go’s) optimism is not leadership; it is performative distraction, a shield for investors while rot festers" AH, THE coveted ...

Pope Leo, an American who has worked most of his life with the poor in south America, and has some potent collaborative pathways to empower the poor in the many countries of the global south, reaches ...

Filmmaker Mehboob Khan not only gave him a break in films but also adopted him, completely transforming his life from a poor ...

The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) said its biggest achievement in 2025 was the strengthened policy convergence that ...

Camarines Sur Governor and Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) Chairperson Luis Raymund Villafuerte Jr. (left) confers with Police Regional Director Brigadier General Nestor Babagay Jr. (center) ...

From the glass-fronted offices and guarded compounds of Kampala’s city centre, it takes only minutes to reach some of the city’s forgotten communities. A short walk, a boda ride, sometimes just ...

CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro (PIA) — The Commission on Population and Development (CPD), formerly known as POPCOM, is intensifying its preventive approach to adolescent pregnancy, urging young ...

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Who provides slum housing for the poor, improving their conditions? Slumlords. God bless them every one, writes Walter Block. (Credit: Sparky2000/Getty Images/Postmedia files) Slumlords have a bad ...

Few outsiders have seen what happens inside Brazil’s favelas neighborhoods where crime, poverty, and fear collide. This report follows a military police unit as they patrol the slums of São Paulo, ...

Filipino families were poor in 2023. A family is classified as poor when it earns less than a defined threshold income (“poverty line”) set by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in 2023 at P13, ...