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Fewer Poor Filipinos A New Trick Did It
Fewer Poor Filipinos A New Trick Did It
The Arroyo administration has vowed to wage war against poverty. However, it seems that government is bent on reducing poverty, not
through addressing the structural weaknesses of the economy, but through the adoption of new poverty methodologies.
Although this may be sufficient for governments economic planners, the ordinary Filipino knows that it takes more than a change of
methodology to reduce poverty and improve the lives of the people.
Poverty can genuinely be addressed only through the implementation of a national industrialization strategy that would develop the countrys
industries and create quality livelihoods for the majority of Filipinos, rather than through the economic globalization strategies that past
administrations have been pursuing.
If government would continue on its current policy course, then we can only expect the poverty problem to worsen in the years ahead. And
eventually, even changing methodologies would no longer be enough to conceal the true extent of poverty in the country. IBON Features /
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