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The Philippines People, Poverty and Politics
Author | : Leonard Davis |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 1987-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349071684 |
Poverty in the Philippines
Author | : Asian Development Bank |
Publisher | : Asian Development Bank |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9292547410 |
Against the backdrop of the global financial crisis and rising food, fuel, and commodity prices, addressing poverty and inequality in the Philippines remains a challenge. The proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined slowly and unevenly in the past four decades, and poverty reduction has been much slower than in neighboring countries such as the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Economic growth has gone through boom and bust cycles, and recent episodes of moderate economic expansion have had limited impact on the poor. Great inequality across income brackets, regions, and sectors, as well as unmanaged population growth, are considered some of the key factors constraining poverty reduction efforts. This publication analyzes the causes of poverty and recommends ways to accelerate poverty reduction and achieve more inclusive growth. it also provides an overview of current government responses, strategies, and achievements in the fight against poverty and identifies and prioritizes future needs and interventions. The analysis is based on current literature and the latest available data, including the 2006 Family Income and Expenditure Survey.
Land, Poverty, and Politics in the Philippines
Author | : Mamerto Canlas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Land reform |
ISBN | : 9789715013017 |
Moral Politics in the Philippines
Author | : Wataru Kusaka |
Publisher | : NUS Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2017-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9814722383 |
“The people” famously ousted Ferdinand Marcos from power in the Philippines in 1986. After democratization, though, a fault line appeared that split the people into citizens and the masses. The former were members of the middle class who engaged in civic action against the restored elite-dominated democracy, and viewed themselves as moral citizens in contrast with the masses, who were poor, engaged in illicit activities and backed flawed leaders. The masses supported emerging populist counter-elites who promised to combat inequality, and saw themselves as morally upright in contrast to the arrogant and oppressive actions of the wealthy in arrogating resources to themselves. In 2001, the middle class toppled the populist president Joseph Estrada through an extra-constitutional movement that the masses denounced as illegitimate. Fearing a populist uprising, the middle class supported action against informal settlements and street vendors, and violent clashes erupted between state forces and the poor. Although solidarity of the people re-emerged in opposition to the corrupt presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and propelled Benigno Aquino III to victory in 2010, inequality and elite rule continue to bedevil Philippine society. Each group considers the other as a threat to democracy, and the prevailing moral antagonism makes it difficult to overcome structural causes of inequality.
Struggling With Development
Author | : Lynn Kwiatkowski |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 629 |
Release | : 2019-05-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429976704 |
Struggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development, hunger, and gender in the context of political violence in the Philippines. This ethnography demonstrates that gender-specific international development, which has among its main goals the alleviation of hunger in women and children and the raising
Whither the Philippines in the 21st Century?
Author | : Rodolfo C Severino |
Publisher | : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9812304991 |
Examines contradictory economic and political trends occurring in the Philippines in order to gain a sense of the country's prospects.
In Pursuit of Progress
Author | : Hannah C. M. Bulloch |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017-01-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0824858905 |
How are meta-narratives of development entangled in people’s identities and life trajectories? How do they inhabit people’s histories, their understandings of their place in the world, and their dreams for the future? The idea of development has been deconstructed and scrutinized as a “Western” metaphor ordering global difference and as a banner under which diverse schemes for societal improvement find legitimacy and common purpose. But how is development assimilated into the worldviews of development’s subjects? How does it reshape identities and in what ways is it reshaped in the process? Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research on the Philippine island of Siquijor, In Pursuit of Progress explores myths, meanings, and practices of development and its counterparts, progress and modernization. It does so not only by considering development as planned, community-wide interventions aimed at society-wide improvements in living standards, but by recognizing that, as a cognitive tool for organizing relationships between people, development is personal. For Siquijodnon, development, or kalamboan, is also a process of self-transformation concerning changes in knowledge, body, roles, and cultural orientation. Emblems as diverse as skin color, Christianity, infant formula, and infrastructure make statements about development on Siquijor. Kalamboan is bound up with social mobility, consumption, and status, but so too is it imbued with ideals of the “simple life,” a life of austerity and attention to social relationships, and with other assumptions about how people should live. Author Hannah Bulloch analyzes development not only as a prescription for material aspiration but also for moral endeavor. In Pursuit of Progress, offers rich, ethnographic insights into contemporary Visayan culture, engaging with questions of enduring significance in Philippines studies, including livelihood change, “colonial mentality,” everyday politics, and moral economy. It will contribute to debates in anthropology, sociology, and development studies regarding the ways in which discourses of development act upon local and global power relations.
The Unlucky Country
Author | : Duncan Alexander McKenzie |
Publisher | : BalboaPress |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2012-01-27 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1452503346 |
This book is about the Republic of the Philippines. It is the truth about the country, as seen through the eyes of a foreigner who lives there, and has been associated with the country since 1981. It tells of the culture, the people, the economy, the poverty, the disasters, the politics and of the need for change. The Philippines can find the road to prosperity. This book explains what needs to happen for that to take place. For anyone with any interest in the Philippines, or any connection with the country, this book cannot be overlooked. The author will donate 25% of author royalties from this book to charity to assist poverty-stricken Filipino families.
Poverty in the Philippines
Author | : Karin Schelzig |
Publisher | : Asian Development Bank |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Philippines |
ISBN | : 9715615635 |
The report is based on a multi dimensional approach to poverty following ADB's poverty reduction strategy, which defines poverty as a deprivation of essential assets. The analytical framework of the country poverty analysis blends a more traditional analysis of income poverty with an assessment of access to five different types of assets. Taken from the sustainable livelihoods approach, these assets are human, physical, natural, financial and social capital.