What is the main problem of poverty?
Poverty entails more than the lack of income and productive
resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods. Its manifestations
include hunger and malnutrition, limited access to education
and other basic services, social discrimination and exclusion as
well as the lack of participation in decision-making.
Another result of poverty is the tax we pay because it is no
longer as low as it was in the past because we now pay too
much. alongside the rise in everyday pricing Unlike today, when
everything is so expensive, my grandmothers and grandfathers
used to claim that one peso was enough to buy food in the
past.
This is one of the reasons why the Philippines is not growing
like other countries, due of poverty, as opposed to before. In
the 1960s, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar were
dubbed the "Tigers of Asia," since all three economies were
experiencing rapid growth.
What is Poverty? Looking back in our history,
Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. The word poor
refers to not having enough money to support yourself and/or
family with the basic supplies of life such as: food, water, and
shelter.
Over 26 million people, or a quarter of the 105 million people in
the Philippines, were living in poverty as of 2018. The country
has fought a long battle to reduce that statistic through various
anti-poverty initiatives like the Comprehensive Agrarian
Reform, Lingap Para sa Mahirap, and the Social Reform Agenda.
The Philippines' impoverished are probably independent
farmers, fishers, or other agricultural workers, despite the
government's best attempts to reduce poverty as part of the
Millennium Development Goals. The majority of these people
75% dwell in remote, disaster-prone places. In 2015, more than
six people made up around 58 percent of impoverished
families.
Education has increased throughout time from the ages of 15
to 24, more than 75% finished secondary education or higher in
2015. However, in disadvantaged homes, more than 60% have
only completed elementary school. Vulnerability to natural
catastrophes, weak government, insufficient health care, a lack
of natural resources, and other issues confront such individuals.
The impoverished suffer an expensive process of recovering
from vulnerability, just to encounter another conflict, which
begins the cycle.
These people have had challenges throughout their lives and
are likely unable to eat every day or every meal, as well as
purchase clothing to protect their bodies.
They have no where to reside. Poverty may be shown in how
individuals live and how much money they have.
Not everyone understands the genuine meaning of poverty,
and some are unaware of the situation.
The following are some of the factors that might contribute to
poverty:
- unemployment
- lack of education
- Typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, landslides,
rubbish landslides, and conflict are examples of natural
calamities.
- corruption.
to solve this issue
As a college student, I can't do much for poverty all I can do is
urge them to study hard, because we all know that education is
a two-edged sword in poverty. "Poverty is not a barrier to
success." Poverty is not an excuse for not being able to study,
as they say. If you want, there is a way if you don't, there are
reasons.
Vino, Mark Laurence M.
HIST 100 | CITCS 1J-1
