Republic of the Philippines

University of Eastern Philippines

University Town, Catarman Northen Samar.

Elyssa E. Carduce
BSBA-Cooperative-I
Mr.Raul P. Managuete

INQUIRER
POVERTY, THE EVIL
(SEPTEMBER 16, 2006 NEWS)
Poverty is a significant problem, and in combination with
high income inequality, it poses a serious threat to stability in
the Philippines.
The proportion of the population living below US $1.25 a day
in 2006 was 23 per cent or around 20 million people. At the same
time , about 44 per cent or over 44 million Filipinos were living
on less than US $2 a day. While the Philippines were able to
reduce poverty incidence from as high as 30 per cent. In the
early 1990s , the actual number of people living in poverty has
increased over the last two decades. The global food and fuel
price crises in 2007 and 2008, and the global economic crisis
that followed, are estimated to have pushed even more people into
poverty.
...
Economic growth in the Philippines has been unable to lift many
of the rural poor out of poverty who traditionally rely on the
agricultural sector for employment and typically have less access
to basic services, lower levels of education and larger families
to support. Even during periods of stronger groowth, such as
2004-2008, poverty continued to rise. Various factors have
contributed to lack of progress on poverty reduction in the
Philippines.
We all know that poverty is like a basic economic problem for
evry country. But here in the Philippines, poverty is growing and
it is because of some reasons such as, high population growth,
income unequality, lack of job opportunities and inability of the

government to provide sufficient basic services, especially to

people in poorer remote region. As we noticed, people in the
remote areas have high population and this is resulting to
increase of poverty. Thus, the government should guide them or
give them a free planning so that they will know the consequences
of having too much children. But if the government will disregard
these issues many children will suffer and eventually become
uneducated person.
Well, if only the government provide basic services for the
people in remote region , probably poverty will decrease.
However, we have also one economic problem that prevents the
solution for poverty and that is corruption, that government
officials own the money instead of using it to provide basic
services for the people. With this in mind , I feel sorry for
those people in remote areas because we all know that corruption
which is also one reason why poverty exists is not that easy to
remove in our society particularly in our government.