BYU’s Fight Malnutrition Club and Bountiful Children’s Foundation hosted a Hunger Banquet on Nov. 17 to raise money for malnourished children in the Philippines. The Hunger Banquet was a simulation of ...

Youths are pictured at at a slum area in Baseco, Tondo city, metro Manila MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 15.5% last year from 18.1% in 2021, with rising food prices ...

JUAN dela Cruz and 20 of his neighbors in a remote village in southern Mindanao are rejoicing. They sell their mangoes every ...

MANILA, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 22.4% or 25.24 million people in the first half of 2023, the government's statistics agency said on Friday, from 23.7% in the same ...

I have written several columns in the past about the severe income inequality existing in the world today. This has been the single biggest cause of the rise of populism whose ideology centers on ...

The COVID-19 crisis has led to the first rise in extreme poverty and food insecurity in 20 years. Is it realistic to end these two scourges once and for all? Ahead of the Commission for Social ...

Students with grumbling stomachs lined up outside of Pima Residence Hall on Wednesday night to learn their fate at the 16th annual Hunger Banquet. The students had fasted for 30 hours to simulate ...

The Honors Program at Jacksonville State University is excited to host a “Hunger Banquet” sponsored through Oxfam, a non-profit organization, to raise awareness about world hunger. The event is a ...

MANILA—The percentage of people living below the poverty line in the Philippines has narrowed only slightly, despite robust growth of the Philippine economy over the last few years, according to the ...

My research, as a social scientist on the subject of human well-being and the quality of life, has been highly involved with ...

Culture is the glue putting values into action, I would like to focus today on the need of business leaders to redefine the role of business in society.