What is inclusive economic growth?

 How can this economic strategy help improve the quality of life in
the country?

Inclusive growth is economic growth that is distributed fairly across society and creates opportunity for
all and it implies direct links between macroeconomic and microeconomic determinants of the economy
and economic growth.

This economic strategy help improve life by focusing on poverty reduction for the country, helping to
increase the employment in quantity and quality, also for the development of agriculture, industrial and
social sectors. Improving the reduction in regional disparities, protecting the environment and for the
equal distribution of income.

Since sustaining an economic growth is a huge and difficult task because negativities may arise from
different angles. Inclusive growth helps the distribution of equal opportunity mostly for the poor and
unfortunate because inclusive growth focus is on the productive employment as a means of increasing
the incomes of the poor and excluded groups and raising their standards of living.

Differentiate and discuss land distribution program during the time of Pres. Marcos and Pres. Corazon C.
Aquino. 

In the year of President Marcos (1965-1986) Marcos issued the second presidential decree under the
martial law declared that the entire Philippines is a land reform area. After a month he declared another
Presidential Decree no.27 that contained the specifics of his land reform program. It was the most
comprehensive attempted in the Philippines. Holdings of more than seven hectares were to be
purchased and parceled out to individual tenants up to three hectares of irrigated, or five hectares of
unirrigated, land, who would then pay off the value of the land over a fifteen-year period. Sharecroppers
on holdings of less than seven hectares were to be converted to leaseholders, paying fixed rents.

The Marcos land reform program succeeded in breaking down many of the large haciendas in Central
Luzon, a traditional center of agrarian unrest where landed elite and Marcos allies were not as
numerous as in other parts of the country. In the country as a whole, however, the program was
generally considered a failure. Only 20 percent of rice and corn land, or 10 percent of total farm land,
was covered by the program, and in 1985, thirteen years after Marcos's proclamation, 75 percent of the
expected beneficiaries had not become owner-cultivators. By 1988 less than 6 percent of all agricultural
households had received a certificate of land transfer, indicating that the land they were cultivating had
been registered as a land transfer holding. About half of this group, 2.4 percent, had received titles,
referred to as emancipation patents. Political commitment on the part of the government waned rather
quickly, after Marcos succeeded in undermining the strength of land elites who had opposed him. Even
where efforts were made, implementation was selective, mismanaged, and subject to considerable graft
and corruption.
The failure of the Marcos land reform program was a major theme in Aquino's 1986 presidential
campaign, and she gave land reform first priority: "Land-to-the-tiller must become a reality, instead of
an empty slogan." The issue was of some significance inasmuch as one of the largest landholdings in the
country was her family's 15,000-hectare Hacienda Luisita. But the candidate was quite clear; the land
reform would apply to Hacienda Luisita as well as to any other landholding. She did not actually begin to
address the land reform question, however, until the issue was brought to a head in January 1987, when
the military attacked a group of peasants marching to Malacañang, the presidential residence, to
demand action on the promised land reform killing 18 and wounding more than 100 of them. The event
galvanized the government into action: a land reform commission was formed, and in July 1987, one
week before the new Congress convened and her decree-making powers would be curtailed, Aquino
proclaimed the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. More than 80 percent of cultivated land and
almost 65 percent of agricultural households were to be included in a phased process that would
consider the type of land and size of holding. In conformity with the country's new Constitution,
provisions for "voluntary land sharing" and just compensation were included. The important details of
timing, priorities, and minimum legal holdings, however, were left to be determined by the new
Congress, the majority of whose members were connected to landed interests.

(http://countrystudies.us/philippines/65.htm)

What is the purpose of taxation? Why do we see taxes as a burden? 

The main purpose of taxation is for the government to provide funds for the country’s citizens which
promotes the general welfare and protection for all.

Some may see taxes as a burden because not everyone is fortunate to pay for it, since poverty all over
the country is worsening. People who barely has enough income for their family’s daily expenses. So
paying for tax will be a burden.