Delfina Guiwan’s heart was pounding as she snuck back to her village, now abandoned and eerily quiet, in the fertile ...

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) recently gathered in Bohol for their 130th plenary assembly. At this gathering of more than 80 bishops, the CBCP elected Archbishop Gilbert ...

A Philippine university professor who became a peace negotiator and helped ease decades of Muslim insurgency violence in her country and an Indian doctor who chose to work in a far-flung rural region ...

Let me start by extending our warmest greetings to Secretary Arsi Balisacan, NEDA Secretary; to our distinguished panelists, to the Representatives from the private sector, civil society, the academe ...

Sources: Deininger and Squire, 1996, and Philippines, National Statistics Office, 1994. Although an improvement in income distribution is often accompanied by a decrease in the poverty rate (absent a ...