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  1. Poverty in the Philippines: Causes, Constraints and Opportunities

    Poverty and inequality in the Philippines remains a challenge. In the past 4 decades, the proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined slowly and unevenly. ... Further research on chronic poverty is needed. The report comprehensively analyzes the causes of poverty and recommends ways to accelerate poverty ...

  2. KEY FINDINGS Overcoming Poverty and Inequality in the Philippines: Past

    In the past three decades, the Philippines has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty. Driven by high growth rates and structural transformation, the poverty rate fell by two-thirds, from 49.2 percent in 1985 to 16.7 percent in 2018. By 2018, the middle class had expanded to nearly 12 million people and the economically secure population had risen to 44 million. This report is intended ...

  3. Poverty, Inequality, and Development in the Philippines: Official

    Academic critiques of official poverty statistics in the Philippines are also instructive (see Mangahas, 2011 and San Juan and Agustin, 2019; Chossudovsky, 2018). Simply put, the Philippines has ...

  4. Overcoming Poverty and Inequality in the Philippines

    Abstract: In the past three decades, the Philippines has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty. Driven by high growth rates and structural transformation, the poverty rate fell by two-thirds, from 49.2 percent in 1985 to 16.7 percent in 2018. By 2018, the middle class had expanded to nearly 12 million people and the economically secure ...

  5. The Poor in the Philippines: Some Insights from Psychological Research

    Abstract. The purpose of this article is to describe the face of poverty in the Philippines. Specifically, through a review of literature, it enumerates the features of destitution in the Philippines, identifies the problems that create, maintain and worsen poverty, and illustrates the coping processes of Filipinos who have made it out of poverty.

  6. Rural Poverty in the Philippines: Incidence, Determinants and Policies

    According to the head count poverty index, poverty incidence declined from 75 per cent in 1961 to 62 per cent in 1971, to 58 per cent in 1985 and to 49 per cent in 1988. The average poverty gap over the whole population was about 40 per cent in 1961, 30 per cent in 1971 and 17 per cent in 1988.

  7. PDF Winning the War on Poverty: Tracking Living Standards in the

    Philippine Poverty Studies on Living Standards In addressing our first research objective, we begin with the study of Estudillo (1997), who looked into the factors affecting household income inequality for each population grouping in the Philippines via the Gini coefficient, Theil T, Theil L, and variance of log

  8. What Has Really Happened to Poverty in the Philippines?: New Measures

    Poverty is increasingly recognized as a multidimensional phenomenon, yet its assessment continues to be conducted almost exclusively in terms of income (or expenditure). This practice is prevalent partly because low household incomes are casually associated with other deprivation indicators, such as low levels of literacy and life expectancy.

  9. Those Who Were Born Poor: A Qualitative Study of Philippine Poverty

    Abstract. This qualitative study investigated the psychological experience of poverty among 2 groups of Filipinos who were interviewed about the effects of being raised poor, 12 who became rich ...

  10. (PDF) The Structural Poverty in the Philippines and its Impact in

    Philippines has a high rate of poverty, with 16% of people in the Philippines living in a state of poverty and as stated by the Asian Development Bank (2018), 16.7% of the population live below ...

  11. Those Who Were Born Poor: A Qualitative Study of Philippine Poverty

    A small part of these data (2 case studies out of 25) was used in a prior publication: Tuason, M. T. (2002). Culture of Poverty: Lessons From Two Case Studies of Poverty in the Philippines; One Became Rich, the Other One Stayed Poor.

  12. The poor in the Philippines: Some insights from psychological research

    The purpose of this article is to describe the face of poverty in the Philippines. Specifically, through a review of literature, it enumerates the features of destitution in the Philippines, identifies the problems that create, maintain and worsen poverty, and illustrates the coping processes of Filipinos who have made it out of poverty. Empirical studies discussed perceptions of the poor ...

  13. PDF Poverty and Inequality Reducing Programs: Lessons from the Philippines

    8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex. 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries. 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. 13.

  14. Urban Poverty in the Philippines: Nature,·Causes and Policy Measures

    A s in other less developed countries (LDCs), urbanization and urban poverty have increasingly become major development policy concerns in the Philippines. The accelerating pace of urbanization is shifting the burden of poverty from rural to urban areas. The proportion of the populatic;m living in urban areas rose from 30 per cent in 1960 to 38 ...

  15. PDF 2021 poverty in the philippines

    Republic Act 8425 of 1997 ( Social Reform & Poverty Alleviation Act) defines Poor as "Individuals and families whose income fall below the poverty threshold as defined by the NEDA. and/or cannot afford in a sustained manner to provide their minimum basic needs of food, health, education, housing. and other essential amenities of life."

  16. PDF TITLE Poverty in Philippines- A human rights problem. AUTHOR Fulbright

    TITLE Poverty in Philippines- A human rights problem. AUTHOR Fulbright Participant Overview of lecture Understanding poverty in the Philippine economy. Topics studied include the ... Philippines". Population Research and Policy Review 27.5 (2008): 619-637.

  17. (PDF) Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in the Philippines

    Thus, with a given poverty line (in real terms), it is. straightforward to obtain the pove rty i ncidence from Figure 3 for the various. years. The national-average official poverty line of P11 ...

  18. Poverty in the Philippines

    Share of population in extreme poverty (1981-2019) In 2021, official government statistics reported that the Philippines had a poverty rate of 18.1%, (or roughly 19.99 million Filipinos), significantly lower than the 49.2 percent recorded in 1985 through years of government poverty reduction efforts. From 2018 to 2021, an estimated 2.3 million Filipinos fell into poverty amid the economic ...

  19. Everything You Should Know About Poverty in the Philippines

    The Extent of Poverty in the Philippines. Poverty in the Philippines declined to 22.4% in 2023, down 1.3% from the same period in 2021. However, despite this decrease, the current state of poverty and inequality is startling. The poverty incidence was 22.4% in the first semester of 2023, affecting approximately 25.24 million Filipinos. The ...

  20. Access to Education, Health Services, Economic Opportunities Key to

    Approximately 9.4 million people identified as indigenous live in the Philippines, about 8.7% of the population, according to census data, and many live in geographically disadvantaged areas. Enhancing the development of these regions through improved connectivity and other interventions can accelerate poverty reduction within these communities.

  21. 202 Poverty Essay Topics & Research Questions

    202 Poverty Essay Topics & Examples. Poverty is one of the most pressing global issues affecting millions of individuals. We want to share some intriguing poverty essay topics and research questions for you to choose the titles of your paper correctly. With the help of this collection, you can explore the intricate dimensions of poverty, its ...

  22. Poverty in the Philippines:A Qualitative Case Study

    9. Modular Distance Learning Thesis-Essay. BSED English 84% (19) 17. Write-ups for Foundation of Education History. BSED English 100% (2) A qualitative research case study about poverty in the Philippines. title poverty in human rights problem. author fulbright participant overview of lecture.

  23. (PDF) Understanding Poverty in Samar, Philippines: A Sociological

    Poverty in the Philippines remains a challenge. In a recent nationwide self-rated survey of the Social Weather Station, more Filipino households consider themselves poor despite the positive ...

  24. Need for Improved Access to Services and Rights for ...

    The report also calls for more ethnicity-disaggregated data to improve poverty reduction strategies and the targeting of social programs. ... Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines," the report emphasizes the need for better data collection and faster processing of legal land titles to benefit the approximately 9.4 million Indigenous Peoples in ...

  25. SC penalizes anti-poverty czar Gadon again over gross misconduct

    May 23, 2024 2:55 PM PHT. Jairo Bolledo. INFO. The SC fines disbarred lawyer Gadon P150,000 and rules him ineligible for judicial clemency. MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court (SC) again ...