A Philippine official says rescuers have detected signs of life in an avalanche of garbage that killed at least four workers ...

A huge mound of garbage has collapsed in a waste segregation facility in a central Philippine city, killing one person and leaving at least 27 others missing.

A planned 20-percent reduction in the cost of farm-to-market roads (FMRs) is expected to allow the government to build more ...

IN 1950 — the year I was born — the Philippines stood at the doorstep of greatness. We had the second-highest income per ...

Nigeria currently has a population of 237 million people and over 133 million Nigerians are living in this kind of poverty.

Poverty in our country is neither a mystery nor an accident. It is the inevitable outcome of decades of policy choices, governance gaps and collective tolerance for inequality.

More than 8.2 million Filipinos in crisis nationwide received aid from the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s ...

Coffee farmers and members of indigenous peoples’ organizations from Cabadbaran City, Agusan del Norte, participate in the ...

The Asian Development Bank and its partners show that poor data on road quality and rural access weakens development outcomes, even though good roads are critical for growth, inclusion, and poverty ...

Growth over the last decade has been "broad-based" and the consumption gap among the rich and poor in both urban and rural India is rapidly shrinking, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman told ...

A bill to repeal the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and introduce a new rural employment law called the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission ...