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Highlights: Recent Economic Developments Global conditions improved in early 2024. The Philippines maintains its growth momentum, supported by a rebound in external demand. Robust growth...

Indigenous Peoples (IPs) play a critical but often overlooked and misunderstood role in global development. As culturally distinct communities and stewards of a large share of the world’s natural resources...

Most economies in developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) are growing faster than the rest of the world but slower than before the pandemic. Slowing global growth, still tight financial...

In rural areas where malnutrition is higher and households poorer, growing diverse fruit trees-especially indigenous fruits-can provide multiple benefits. These fruit trees can...

Most economies in developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP), other than several Pacific Island Countries, have recovered from the succession of shocks since 2020 and are continuing to grow...

Honduras, already among the poorest countries in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, experienced weak poverty reduction in 2014–19 compared to other countries in the region. The COVID-19...

Highlights: General findings Headline inflation has declined since the start of the year, but remained elevated at an average of 7.9 percent in the first four months of 2023. It exceeded...

To support the Philippine government in assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security and essential needs of the affected population and monitor the effect of its Social Amelioration Program (SAP)...

The Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has done an independent evaluation of a programme that aimed to promote and institutionalize AA and SRSP...

Key findings include the following points, in particular regarding the impacts of COVID-19 on poverty and inequality: The Philippines has made significant progress in reducing poverty, but income...