Issues of

The Republic of
the Philippines
 Table of Contents
Drugs & High Crime 5 Monopoly in
1
Rate Businesses
6
Low Quality
2 Poverty
Unemploymen Healthcare
3 t& 7 Poor Quality of
Underemploy Education
4 ment
Corruption 8 Rapid Population
Growth
 01

Drugs & Crime

 Rodrigo
“Digong”
Duterte
June 2016 – June 2022
War Against Drugs
 02

Poverty
Proportion of poor Filipinos was recorded at 18.1 %
in 2021. This translates to 19.9 million poor people
out of 111 million total population.
Children search for food at
dump sites.
 03
Unemployment &
Underemployment
Unemployment
Underemployme
nt
 04
Corruptio
n
 05
Business
Monopoly
 MERALCO is a major
monopoly. Consumers have no
choice on who they want to
provide service for their
electricity.

MERALCO ends up charging

whatever they want.

You can't do anything about it

since if you complain or don't
pay your bills, they just cut off
your electricity.
 06
Low Quality
Healthcare
The shortage of hospitals and surgical equipment are the
primary barriers to quality healthcare in the Philippines.
 07

Poor Quality of Education

Lack
Lack of
of classrooms.
classrooms.
Poor
Poor facilities.
facilities.
Poor
Poor quality
quality of
of
teachers.
teachers.
 08

Rapid Population Growth

About 7,370 babies are born each day.
 No
No access
access to
to
contraceptives.
contraceptives.
Abortion is
illegal.
Thank
you!
 Last Task!
Choose one of the issues
presented and research
about it.
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