The document discusses poverty in the Philippines. It states that poverty remains a critical social problem in the country that must be addressed immediately. Poverty arose due to the rapid population growth which outpaced available resources. It affects many aspects of Filipino life such as limiting education, increasing unemployment, and contributing to poor health and crime. Some of the proposed solutions include government reform, improved coordination between agencies, increased funding for social services, and providing more opportunities to help the poor escape poverty.
The document discusses poverty in the Philippines. It states that poverty remains a critical social problem in the country that must be addressed immediately. Poverty arose due to the rapid population growth which outpaced available resources. It affects many aspects of Filipino life such as limiting education, increasing unemployment, and contributing to poor health and crime. Some of the proposed solutions include government reform, improved coordination between agencies, increased funding for social services, and providing more opportunities to help the poor escape poverty.
The document discusses poverty in the Philippines. It states that poverty remains a critical social problem in the country that must be addressed immediately. Poverty arose due to the rapid population growth which outpaced available resources. It affects many aspects of Filipino life such as limiting education, increasing unemployment, and contributing to poor health and crime. Some of the proposed solutions include government reform, improved coordination between agencies, increased funding for social services, and providing more opportunities to help the poor escape poverty.
The document discusses poverty in the Philippines. It states that poverty remains a critical social problem in the country that must be addressed immediately. Poverty arose due to the rapid population growth which outpaced available resources. It affects many aspects of Filipino life such as limiting education, increasing unemployment, and contributing to poor health and crime. Some of the proposed solutions include government reform, improved coordination between agencies, increased funding for social services, and providing more opportunities to help the poor escape poverty.
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Poverty is the state of not having enough money to provide
or to take care of basic needs such as food, clothing and housing.
Poverty remains the most critical social problem that needs to be addressed. It is a very serious problem that must immediately be dealt with in order to minimize its effects. Poverty takes a great toll not only on the poor but also the country as a whole. Thus, the Philippines, its government and its agencies have to undergo major reform to fight poverty.
Poverty in the Philippines arose from the rapid population
growth in the country. Millions of Filipinos live below the poverty line. As Philippines has limited resources and an existing high poverty rate, the rapid increase in population has become a problem because there are already insufficient resources to support the population, which leaves much lesser resources to improve the economy.
In modern times, vices are common in the Philippines like
playing cards, mahjong, smoking cigarettes, drinking day or night even if there are no occasions, and betting on a cockfight. Some people depend on these in making a living instead of looking for a job but their chances always leads into nothing.
The government until today is still corrupted because of
politicians and persons in authority that forget their responsibility to the nation to satisfy their personal interests. That is why we also have debts in the World Bank because of them. It is pitiful to see educated Filipinos that don’t do what they have said during their campaigns.
Lack of quality education can also cause poverty. Families
below poverty line cannot let their children go to school. Even the parents have no experience to wear school uniforms and have allowance to study. They have no diplomas. They do not wear any graduation gown in their life.
Because of lack of quality education, high unemployment
rate and job mismatching are present. In order to have a permanent and good salary job, you must have a bachelor’s degree. You must finish a tertiary education or at least a vocational course. Poor people are contented picking junks and garbage everywhere, being beggars, and searching foods in every trash bins. Some have jobs but seasonal, and even they are contractual workers with low salary. Is their salary can feed their children three times a day?
The effects of it are very visible in nature. Poverty causes
many Filipinos to not pursue their education. Others seem to be contented of their lives as poor. While others seem to work by labor, the economy of the country is also affected in such a way that the economic activities are too domestic in nature, and decreasing the country's ability to make a way to international economics. However, many foreign investors are helping domestic laborers in terms of providing jobs locally.
The nutrition of many children in the Philippines is greatly
affected by poverty. People living beside polluted places are affected by their improper hygiene and urban dwellers are even more affected by their insufficient intake of healthy foods.
Poverty also affects the daily lives of the Filipinos. As much
as many Filipinos depend on luck, it is triggered by their low- lifestyle favors and bad living conditions. People use drugs and perform crimes as their escape to poverty. It contributes to the high crime rate throughout the world.
There are many solutions in suppressing poverty.
Government must change and take reforms first. Government should reform its institutions to enhance coordination, improve efficiency and lessen corruption. We should improve coordination between the involved agencies and key stakeholders as this will improve efficiency between them.
We should improve poverty targeting, monitoring and
evaluation. There should also be increased funds for data collection, processing and management. This will help us learn more about poverty and help us prepare more for it. Studying poverty will give us a better chance of avoiding it.
It is said that we should address poverty specifically per
area. So that each place receives the care it needs. Each place is different and treating each place special may allow us to get rid of poverty more easily by going to the cause of poverty in those places.
The resources of the local government should be enhanced
and their coordination with the national government should be improved. This will allow them to be able to work better and help more in poverty.
The government should increase available resources for
social services, poverty reduction, and infrastructure. They should also maintain price stability to shield the poor from high food prices and they should lessen corruption and develop infrastructure in order to boost investor confidence. This will enable more money to go into the country while the poor are being shielded from high prices. Giving more money and allowing more money into the country will allow the poor to get more help, and the boost in the economy will give them jobs as well.
Solution to suppress poverty doesn’t show immediate
result. It depends on the people below the poverty line if they want to have an abundant life and escape poverty. So, let’s fight poverty as one for the brighter future of our country, the Philippines.