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I.
 INTRODUCTION :
 
One of the major problems that continue to plaque the Philippines is poverty.Despite the said efforts of both government and business firms many Filipinos remainin need. It is not a simple problem because now days we are facing mass poverty. For all the magnificent testimonies to man’s superior skill and intellect in producingtoday’s level of cultural development, he still has to find the solution to mass poverty.Whether the government would admit it or not, it is very clear even with our bareeyes that we our suffering a lot from poverty.But what is poverty anyway?Let first define poverty so we can have a clear understanding with what arewe going to discuss. From a Webster dictionary, poverty means ‘lack of money or material possessions’. While from the book of Villegas entitled ‘Guide to Economicsfor Filipinos’ he stated that poverty or being poor means ‘experiencing a low qualityof life deprived of both the material and non material requirements that allow anindividual to live like a human being’. According to ‘Addison Wesley Economics’ byRichard M. Hodgetts’ said most of people regard poverty as ‘a condition in which people are unable to buy the minimal amount of food, clothing and shelter that isrequired for existence’. Over all there are a lot of ways to define poverty, it dependson how the person thinks or how does the person relate it to his life personalexperiences.With all our efforts and patience why did we choose this topic? Obviouslythere are a lot more economic problems or short comings could be discussed and infact lot easier, but our group tend to dig the deepest difficulties face by the Filipinosnow a day, we fell with the same root. That is poverty, bottom line we choose thisstatus quo to begin with our research because it is significant in relation to currentissues in society. It is very obvious in our bare wide eyes and far cry conscience. Tostart with we tried to do face to face survey, observation, documentation and researchwith the best of our skills. We tried to focus our investigation in the most vital issues.Let’s look at three concepts of poverty: first relative poverty, second absolute poverty and last poverty according to the perception of the people themselves.Relative poverty pertains to those whose income or consumption share is at the bottom 4500 or the population. Absolute poverty measures the capacity to meetspecific minimum needs. This refers to the commonly used phrase “poverty lines”.And the last type measures poverty according to perceived minimum needs thesatisfaction of which would make a family consider itself as being non-poor. We based our research more on the second and third concept.The threshold Family income is the level of incomes that provides at least theminimum requirements consistent with the dignity of the workers and his family ashuman beings. It is above what needed for mere survival and should therefore provide enough food, clothing, shelter, education, health and personal care, securitysavings for emergencies, savings for unemployment and old age, and eventually,something a man can call his own, a piece of property.In this topic we tried to cultivate the main reason or roots of poverty. We triedto witness the undying agony of the poor. We tried to listen with their long vulgar emotions that pulling them apart from success yet continuously pushing them to thedeepest level of poverty line. We tried to analyze the different perception of human beings about their way of living. We tried to emphasize the causes and effect of  poverty. Less that we could do we tried to give some ways how to eliminate poverty.What are the things we could do to neither have a better living nor somehoweliminate poverty? But the biggest question left unanswered. Can we still eliminate poverty? Was there a chance for survival? Most of all the huge echo that stroke us leftour hearts with pain and hope. Who’s to blame with our sufferings, which’s to blame
 
with our unending despair? Is it the government fault? Or are we all responsible for these shame and despair we’re facing?
 II. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 
1.
Why Philippines is drowning in poverty?
2.
Are you experiencing lack of financial assistance or material needsright now?
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What are the different difficulties face by the Filipinos that lead to poverty?
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What can we do to escape or somehow eliminate poverty?
Why Philippines is drowning in poverty?
 News articles from a range of years had identical the same write-ups about poverty, no changes at all…it’s still as rampant as of 2001 up to now. And they hadsimilar reasons why it still goes on. Urban bias in public investment for infrastructureand provision of safety nets; implicit taxation of agricultural products and anovervalued exchange rate; direct taxation of agricultural exports and importssubsidies; subsidies for capital intensive technologies; favouring export crops over food crops; breakdown of law and order; ill defined property right or unfair enforcement of rights to agricultural land and other natural resources; highconcentration of land ownership; corrupt politicians and rent-seeking governmentofficials; poor employment throughout the country; unsuccessful rationalizing of theallocating government assistance; lack of opportunity; lack o f security; and lack of empowerment, are among the thousands of reasons given by the news articles we hadresearched-including the surveys we conducted, that causes poverty to our countryand to us Filipinos, individually.Base on the survey we had conducted, we heard and known what our fellowFilipinos assume as reasons or causes of poverty in the Philippines. Same answerscame out such as: because of graft and corruption, the way or system practice by our government officials, poor governance of the administration, lack of education, lack of investment, unemployment, underemployment, overpopulation, no cooperationamong Filipinos, idleness and lack of discipline.On our face to face survey, we asked the Filipinos such question as ‘WhyPhilippines is drowning in poverty?’ Based on the result, out of 135 despondences,38% of it believes that corruption is the reason of poverty. 19% believe that lack of government support, 18% believe it’s because of over population. While the 16% of it said that it is because of our own fault, considering that we have bountifulresources yet we don’t know how to use it properly, it is also obvious to each one of us that we lack discipline, we don’t follow the laws in our homeland and we arecontented where we are, we don’t even tried to strive for a change. 5% of it said it is because of unemployment, so the families suffer from hunger and lack of basic needssimple because they don’t have enough income. The other 3% stated that it is because of lack of education and the last 1% claim that it is because of lack of investment.
 
We follow up it with such question as ‘Are you experiencing lack of financialassistance or lack material things right now? Same 135 despondences, notsurprisingly 107 number of despondences or 79% of it said ‘YES’ without a blink of an eye. Amazingly 28 number of despondences or 21% of it answered ‘NO’. It isclear now that higher number of Filipinos is experiencing lack of financial supportand lack of material needs.As a result we tried to question the society how did they come up with suchanswer. We tried to picture out their everyday way of living, seems like we werewatching a film. That was and still their opinion and perception about poverty. Letus now flip the coin, if there were causes of poverty of course there were effects of it.We tried to swim into the deepest effect of poverty to family’s, to children, toworking men and women, to students, to government employees, to ordinary citizenand to those people who claim the street as their hell of paradise.Whether we like it or not, admit or not, poverty strikes in us all. Let’s firstdiscuss the effect of the main cause, as they said it loud and clear, “CORRUPTION”.
*CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF POVERTY* 
A. CORRUPTION:
25 % of the Annual National Budget ends up in corruption. (PS Link)Philippines is the most corrupt in Asia (PERC, 2007)
The effect of corruption on the poor can be gauged through both its directimpact, (example, increasing the cost of public services, lowering their quality andoften all together restricting for peoples access to such essential services as water,health and education.) and the indirect impact (example, diverting public resourcesaway from social sectors and the poor, and through limiting development, growth and poverty reduction), while this impacts negatively on most of the segment of society, itis suggested that the poor are more vulnerable both in terms of being easy targets for  being subjected to extortion, bribery, double-standards and intimidations as well as interms of being hit by the negative impact of corruption, there is also country’s overalldevelopment processes.Corruption affects income inequality and poverty: as well as economicefficiency corruption can also have distributional consequences. This affects incomeinequality and poverty by reducing economic growth, the progressives of the taxsystem, the level and effectiveness of social programs, and by perpetuating anunequal distribution of asset ownership and unequal access to education.
B. LACK OF GOVENRMENT SUPPORT:
Government support for the public educational system has been declining andthis is manifested by the severe shortages besetting the sector. We have small andfilthy classrooms, we conquer poor education as a result we became poorer and poorer. The government lack of support affects our daily life, we encounter poor infrastructure, heavy traffics due to poor quality of our roads, unemployment,spreading diseases, expensive medicines, high tuition fees, high cost of living, andtaxes.
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Iya Esguerra

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Iya Esguerra

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blackoddz

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leafMICHI

yes, you can but please acknowledge our work by including us in your bibliography (by just including the url of this site will do as an acknowledgement).....sorry for the late reply...

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