Social Climate

Poverty as defined by the poor

The current controversy over the official poverty line is due to social critics’ intense disagreement…

2 of 3 Fil-Ams are for Kamala

This piece is for the benefit of some old school friends, now living in the…

Measuring social emotions

Surely, national pride has surged from the two gold medals won by Carlos Yulo in…

Pride from international sports

The International Social Survey Program (issp.org)—in which Social Weather Stations (SWS) has been the Philippine…

Hunger keeps rising

The alarming thing about the hunger problem is not only that the rate is so…

Poor, Borderline, Not Poor

There is a rare mix of pain and pleasure in the new Social Weather Stations…

Doing good versus doing well

There was both good and bad news at the close of the 2024 annual conference…

Our untold economic history

Recently I began a talk at the University of the Philippines by asking the audience…

Measuring development 102: practice

This week, the government announced that economic growth in the first quarter this year was…

When hunger and poverty go opposite

The big picture from the First Quarter 2024 Social Weather Stations (SWS) reports on poverty…