Poverty

POVERTY IN THE PHILIPPINES

The Philippines' poor are expanding by around 1.3 million people every year, as rising food prices and sluggish wage growth mean that more families cannot afford to feed themselves, government data on Wednesday showed.

The bleak picture of 3.8 million people, nearly double the population of Slovenia, slipping below the poverty line in 2003-2006 is an embarrassment for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who has paraded her government's anti-poverty credentials amid a growing economy.

- Reuters

One of the reasons on why there is a need to focus on poverty is because it touches on so many social and economic issues that our nation faces. Poverty is one of the causes of the many issues in the Philippines like education, food shortage, economical problems, poor health, and others. Poverty is the result of the continuous result of our government’s bad performance as a manager of our money.

According to the official figures by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB), some 32.9% of the population, or 27.6 million Filipinos are poor. Poverty has been one of the biggest problems our country is suffering. It leads to a lot of problems in our fellow people like food shortage, financial difficulties in education, and others. It is a continuous cycle. If people did not finish their studies, there is a great possibility that they cannot raise their families in the world of poverty. There are also cases in which people cannot consider Filipinos poor because they see that they can still use their money for their individual wants. What other Filipinos do not see is that they have to prioritize to meet their needs rather than their wants.

Poverty in the Philippines is a sad reality, and yet the Filipino people have shown little interest to solve this situation. The inactivity of the people must be due to the lack of information provided to them. This is why I chose this...