Poverty in the Philippines: Causes, Constraints and Opportunities

Poverty and inequality in the Philippines remains a challenge. In the past 40 years, the proportion of households living below the public poverty line slowly and unevenly decreases.

Economic growth has experienced a cycle of prosperity and recession, and recent moderate economic expansion has limited the impact on the poor. Income hierarchies, regions, sectors, and significant inequality across uncontrolled population growth are considered an important element to limit poverty reduction efforts.

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High levels of inequality (income and assets), which hinders the positive impact of economic expansion.

Exposure to frequent shocks and risks such as economic crisis, conflict, natural disasters, "environmental poverty".

The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the causes of poverty, suggesting ways to accelerate poverty reduction and achieve more comprehensive growth. In the short term and in the short term, we need to strengthen the government 's poverty reduction strategy and involve key sectors in collective and coordinated response to this issue. In the medium to long term, the government should continue to implement major economic reforms to achieve sustainable and comprehensive growth.

Diokno (1998) and poverty, tradition and culture, educational opportunities and economics. The Philippines is one of the poorest countries in the world. Poverty is considered the root cause of many domestic social problems including child labor. Because of poverty, many Filipino families live in slums where food is limited. Their hunger needs to be satisfied, and they are working the family in every way, including their children. Therefore, children can not refuse to do so, but "they meet the basic requirements" (Diokno, 1998)

Because poverty afflicts the country and opportunities for employment are scarce, many Filipinos can not afford housing, so that they can find accommodation by looking at the street. In 2012, extreme poverty in the Philippines was damaged by 19.2% of the population, or about 18.4 million people. Due to the uneven distribution of income, low-income households with low development households have very low food supply needs. The quality of food is also declining - Rice was once the main food source of the Filipino people, but now it is replaced by cheaper and less nutritious instant noodles. As a result, malnutrition has become more common

Intensive poverty severely limits access to opportunities and upward liquidity. Poverty concentrated areas - often defined as low-income areas by over 40% of residents - are faced with high unemployment rates, migration of population, housing instability 10. Many Americans and more American children live in poverty areas. Since 2000 the number of census territories in poor countries has increased by 50%, the population of 11 million live in the census area, at least 40% of which are low-income countries 11 The concentration of poverty in the United States is Deteriorate the gender gap. For example, blacks and Hispanics are more likely to live in poorer communities than Caucasians.