...POVERTY: ITS EFFECTS TO THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMY A Research Paper Submitted to Ms. Antonia D. Entino Instructor A Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the course Eng. R: Writing in the Discipline By: Charlene P. Trenchera Sheila Mae O. Calites April Faith S. Negros Joana F. Santizo Annaliza S. Lar Jonel V. Verzosa Khim Arjay S. Pica Group I BS-Economics IB March, 2016 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The researchers would like to thank express their heartfelt gratitude to the individuals who helped in making this research a success. Especially to our Creator, who gave us strength and wisdom to finish this research paper. Special thanks to our parents who supported us financially, spiritually and emotionally which are a big help in the compilation of this study. Special thanks to our English Teacher, Ms. Antonia D. Entino for the patience and determination in teaching us all about research writing. Without her untiring effort this study will not be successful. To all the persons who helped us to finish this study. Thank you a lot. CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Poverty is general scarcity, dearth, or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money.[1] It is a multifaceted concept, which includes social, economic, and political elements.[2] Poverty may be defined as either absolute or relative poverty or destitution refers to the lack of means necessary...
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...II. BODY POVERTY DEFINEDhbernard Shhtaw, “peducation, housing and fair treatment under the law. We will examine the inequalities of treatment recorded to the poor in each of these areas, and the resulting degradation is the quality of their lives. The World Bank Organization describes poverty in this way: “Povergrgfrbfr I n addition to a lack of money, poverty is about not being able to participate in recreational activities; not being able to send children on a vdsvcdsour economy. Whilevrdvny definitions, one thing is certain; poverty is a complex societal issue. No matter how poverty is defined, it can be agreed that it is an issue that requires everyone’s attention. It is important that all members of our society work together to provide the opportunities for all our members to reach their full potential. It helps all of us to help one another. Joseph Julian, Social Problems: 3rd Edition (Prentice Hall, Inc. 1980), p.256. George Ritzer, Social Problems: Second Edition (Random House, Inc. 1986), p.341. http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/esic/overview/content/what_is_poverty.html CAUSES OF POVERTY 2. Cutback’s in health, education and other vital social services around the world resulted from structural adjustment policies prescribed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank as conditions for loans and repayment. In addition, developing nation governments are required to open their economies to compete with each other...
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...Do you know what it is like to be poor? The world often demonizes the poor for being too lazy and unmotivated. That assumption is often very wrong, people in poverty try their hardest to escape but it is often too hard. But what if I told you it was actually our fault, Society as a whole could be doing more to help the poor. It is society’s responsibility to help those in poverty escape its clutches. In their paper Framing the Poor, Max and Frank discuss the prominence of the pessimistic view towards the poor in recent years. They discuss Ronald Reagan and a strategy of his campaign, where he would talk about Linda Taylor, “The Welfare Queen”. She was a highly skilled con artist, who had 80 fake names and made $150,000 in illicit welfare (Max and Frank). Linda Taylor doesn't make a good name for the poor, many people despised her for cheating the system for her income while others had to actually work. However Taylor is an extreme case, and it is only probable that she had this big of a con. Taylor still became a media sensation, with many people believing that she represented the poor. This lead to a harsh attitude to the poor and the belief that they were lazy and living off welfare...
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...What Are the Effects of Growing Up in Poverty? Poverty is the state of being extremely poor or having very little. Poverty is everywhere in today’s society, especially in richer cities. Poverty today is rising and whether you are in poverty or not is a rising scale, so even you can technically be counted as poverty in your city. The effects of poverty are some of the worst experiences a family or even a town can go through. Poverty can be caused by many mistakes, but it can affect your family or town’s education, development, crime, social mobility, and social spending. Thirst, hunger, and crime are some of the largest causes or even effects of poverty. Having children and family means they all need sustenance, and with today’s economy...
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...Closer to the End of Poverty Every day deaths are caused by some type of disaster all over the world. Some disasters can be prevented, like warfare and poverty, whereas other disasters can come without warning, such as natural disasters. When countries are suffering from poverty or are shaken up by something such as an earthquake or hurricane, they look towards American Humanitarians and our government to lend them a hand. Newspapers constantly talk about countries pleading for help: "We have the resources, we have the know-how to end extreme poverty” (Stossel, Patrick McMenamin 42). And it is true. Our government does provide money and resources to these countries that are begging for help, but not enough. Our country provides more money to aid countries in their civil wars than it does to provide foreign aid for countries that desperately need help. Most aid is intended to be spent as investment projects in particular areas of need such as supplying medicine and water to Third World countries, and rebuilding new roads and homes for countries that are destroyed by natural disasters. The main problem, as most experts put it, is that “aid is substitutable and what the money is supposed to be used for is spent on something else” (Rieff 225). Warfare should be the last thing our government should be focusing on with disasters such as Haiti’s earthquake and with so many deaths from diseases caused by poverty. To help reduce poverty in the world, American Humanitarians...
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...What Are The Real Reasons Behind Poverty In The Middle East? "Poverty: The state of being extremely poor" by Oxford Dictionaries Introduction With the recent revolutions in the Middle East demanding word and social justice, and the high levels of unemployment in the region. The Middle East is still suffering from a high poverty rating, and a huge wage gap between the social classes. Rich people literally are getting richer while the poor are facing more problems and disasters as time goes by. Many questions remain unanswered: What are the reasons behind poverty in the Middle East? Why do rich people get richer while the poor get poorer? How do the rich people benefit from the current situation? How laws are fixed to protect only the rich? Are governments involved in these acts? Poverty rate in MENA has been slightly declining since 1990 to 2005, 17 percent of the region's population live below $2/day in 2005. The region faces various challenges in poverty reduction, such as the persistency of poverty, as poverty in this region is impacted by a hasty economic growth, which is above 2 percent per capita. This is a result of the nature of poverty, which is concentrated on groups that benefit the last ones from that economic growth: the uneducated, rural residents, families with a lot of members. Another challenge the region is facing is the increasing inequality, which is increasing steadily. Which has serious implications for reducing poverty. Inequality is experienced during...
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...Protect Our Memory Persuasive Speech Outline I. Introduction A. How to Grab their attention 1. Show a picture of the human brain 2. This is a picture of the brain of a twenty five year old vs. the brain of an 85 year old. Deina lives among these people. But she has hope, because there is someone fighting for her. 3. She is not alone. Her neighbor needs a rescuer as well. B. Thesis: The battle against poverty can be won through the efforts of those who have been blessed and who are willing to give of themselves. C. Purpose/Preview: By the end of this discussion I hope to have: 1. Presented a picture of poverty, a way we can fight it, and hope of victory. [Transition: But first, let define poverty.] II. Need A. Court fees and fines that fund crime victims have fallen off B. Around the world, 30% of children suffer from malnutrition, 19% have no access to clean water, 17% will never attend school, and worst of all, 30,000 children under five die each day (UNICEF, 2006). C. A deeper definition 1. Compassion International take the definition of poverty a step further, “Poverty is much more than a lack of money or material possessions—at its core, poverty is a lack of options. It is a mindset of utter hopelessness that overwhelms its victims with difficult circumstances and tells them to give up. Those suffering from poverty can teach us what true joy really is…and how one can find this joy in the most unlikely of places (Compassion, 2007).” D. Poverty is a continuous...
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...Causes of Poverty I saw a video clip of a teacher talking about how she struggled with scolding a student for not paying attention in class, when in fact the student was hungry. When we have the capability of producing cars that do not use fuel, books that can be downloaded in 60 seconds or less, why do we still have poverty around the world. Some of the causes of poverty are One: The lack of education - nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. Two: Job salary – half the world lives on less then $2.50 a day. These two areas can negatively affect society, and the world. Hunger is a negative effect. In the article “causes of hunger are related to Poverty, by Anup Shah he quoted “to understand why people go hungry you must stop thinking about food as something farmers grow for others to eat, and begin thinking about it as something companies produce for other people to buy.” In other words, those who can get food are the ones who can afford to pay for it. Lack of shelter and lack of health services are two other negative effects of poverty. Over 640 million live without adequate shelter and more than 270 million have no access to health services. To try to eliminate poverty around the world, we can begin by trying to create new jobs that replace jobs that are no longer viable. We must find ways that healthcare can be available to all, not just to those who can pay for it. And we must find ways to increase food...
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...If we diminish poverty, then we will receive less delinquency. Poverty and crime has been major issues in our society over the past few years. Do you think these two issues correlate to each other? I think society today does see poverty as a factor in crime rates and the correlation between each is valid. The cause and effect theory is: because of poverty, crime rates are high. If this is true, one way to solve crime is to solve poverty. The sociological perspective on this topic involves looking at the bigger picture. The structural functionalism for poverty is lack of education, unemployed, preferring to “live for the moment”, and resigning themselves to a culture of poverty (which nothing can be done to change their economic outcomes). We can solve poverty by; (1) understanding the factors that play into poverty and crimes, (2) advancing our education levels, and (3) lowering our unemployment rates. With these three solutions we can diminish poverty and receive less delinquency. (Macionis, 2010, p.59). According to census, in 2014 there were more than 45 million Americans living below the poverty line. A family of three making less than $19,790 year is considered living below the poverty level. $19,790 averages out to about 10$ per hour. (Gongoff, 2014, para. 2). A single mom working at minimum wages with two kids lives in poverty. A third of all poverty households are single mothers. Single mothers are more likely to become a victim of a crime. I found...
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...Global poverty and inequality are problems that affect a large portion of the world’s population. In fact, over half of the world’s population has an income below America’s official poverty standard. To understand this massive gap, one must realize that global poverty is very different from U.S. domestic poverty. The United Nations set a goal to cut global poverty rates in half in 2015. In order for this to occur, nations must reduce extreme poverty through low-income nations having faster GDP growth. This gives greater priority to eliminating the structural, cultural, and legal “inequality traps” that both impede upward mobility for the poor and inhibit economic development. Due to the increasing views on global poverty, there has been a big push regarding ways to alleviate this problem. The main sources to alleviating global poverty are medical assistance, direct aid, education, family planning, and government reform. In society, there are many different effects when it comes to poverty and discrimination. To begin to understand how to alleviate the problem of global poverty, one must understand the effects of poverty and the impact of where one is brought up. Where you grow up and who you grow up around are two of the major elements of poverty and are known as neighborhood effects. The definition of neighborhood effect is the effect of the neighborhood you grew up in on your adult outcomes. One program that the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development came up with...
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...International Business Management Globalization is not a new thing. Long time ago, people have been selling to and buying from each other places at far distances, for example, the Silk Road across Central Asia which was connected China and Europe during the Middle Ages. The globalization has been developing since 1980 and today it is easier for people and firms to communicate with other countries in the world. Globalization is the development of worldwide economy in which resources and products move fairly across national borders. It is also a process of integration among people, companies, and governments of different countries, which is usually driven by international trade, investment and supported by information technology. Both developing and developed countries are taking part actively in globalization process but both countries reacted differently in globalization. This process has the positive and negative effects on employment, culture, education and knowledge, market competition, economic, wealth and human physical well-being around the world. Employment and Poverty The outsourcing of services and manufacturing to developing countries have provided more job opportunities for people in developing countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, China and Vietnam. It has given a chance to invest developing markets and discover the available talents there. Due to globalization of business, people in developing countries can obtain...
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...SOC100: Introduction to Sociology December 7, 2012 For this assignment I chose to investigate the issue of poverty and how it affects young children. In the dictionary poverty is defined as the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. According to our textbook, there is relative or absolute poverty. Relative poverty means the some people lack resources that are taken for granted by others. This type of poverty exists in every society. Absolute poverty is a lack of resources that is life threatening. (Macionis, 307) The issue of poverty falls into the sociological term, global stratification, patterns of social inequality in the world as a whole. (Macionis, 300). The article that I have chosen is “The Effects of Poverty on Children” written by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Greg Duncan. They go into detail about how family poverty is associated with a child’s health, achievement, and behavior. It is said that death comes early in poor societies because families lack the income to provide adequate food, safe water, secure housing, etc. (Macionis, 309) When a child lives in poverty it can affect them in many different ways. According to a table produced by Gunn & Duncan poor children suffer higher incidences of adverse health, developmental, other outcomes than non-poor children. (Gunn & Duncan, 58) I believe that sometimes when children grow up poor they think that they can never succeed because they didn’t grow up with the...
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...Investigating a Social Issue Brandy West Professor Fass SOC100: Introduction to Sociology December 7, 2012 For this assignment I chose to investigate the issue of poverty and how it affects young children. In the dictionary poverty is defined as the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. According to our textbook, there is relative or absolute poverty. Relative poverty means the some people lack resources that are taken for granted by others. This type of poverty exists in every society. Absolute poverty is a lack of resources that is life threatening. (Macionis, 307) The issue of poverty falls into the sociological term, global stratification, patterns of social inequality in the world as a whole. (Macionis, 300). The article that I have chosen is “The Effects of Poverty on Children” written by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Greg Duncan. They go into detail about how family poverty is associated with a child’s health, achievement, and behavior. It is said that death comes early in poor societies because families lack the income to provide adequate food, safe water, secure housing, etc. (Macionis, 309) When a child lives in poverty it can affect them in many different ways. According to a table produced by Gunn & Duncan poor children suffer higher incidences of adverse health, developmental, other outcomes than non-poor children. (Gunn & Duncan, 58) I believe that sometimes when children grow up poor they think...
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...Our planet has a problem that it is getting warmer. Most of the scientists agree that this climate change is threatening our earth; human beings can be extinct probably in the near future. The cause and effects of this phenomenon has been studied which is greenhouse effect. The whole world is getting involved in this issue and looking for solutions. Greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon that increases temperature of the earth’s surface (Australian government). However, according to the investigations, human activities enhanced the greenhouse activities, making it worse. So our climate change is due to the increasing human activities, global industrialization which ejects huge amount of carbon emissions. Human activities enhance greenhouse effect that causes widespread heave rainfalls in the northern Hemisphere during the last 50 years (Minetal, as cited in Allan, 2011).The rising temperature is disrupting every aspect in our life and the whole ecosystem. This climate change affects atmospheric and ocean circulations and brings many hazards to the earth, such as widespread drought, flood and tsunami. As we considered climate change, we need consider the common good for all the humans on the earth. The common good refers to the total living conditions which can enable individuals to get the achievement which enables people to achieve humanity (google), whereas climate change is a serious issue that is eliminating human living resouces in many aspects. As we mentioned above...
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...TERM PAPER ABOUT POVERTY I. INTRODUCTION : One of the major problems that continue to plaque the Philippines is poverty. Despite the said efforts of both government and business firms many Filipinos remain in need. It is not a simple problem because nowadays we are facing mass poverty. For all the magnificent testimonies to man’s superior skill and intellect in producing today’s level of cultural development, he still has to find the solution to mass poverty. Whether the government would admit it or not, it is very clear even with our bare eyes that we our suffering a lot from poverty. But what is poverty anyway? Let first define poverty so we can have a clear understanding with what are we going to discuss. From a Webster dictionary, poverty means ‘lack of money or material possessions’. While from the book of Villegas entitled ‘Guide to Economics for Filipinos’ he stated that poverty or being poor means ‘experiencing a low quality of life deprived of both the material and non material requirements that allow an individual to live like a human being’. According to ‘Addison Wesley Economics’ by Richard M. Hodgetts’ said most of people regard poverty as ‘a condition in which people are unable to buy the minimal amount of food, clothing and shelter that is required for existence’. Over all there are a lot of ways to define poverty, it depends on how the person thinks or how does the person relate it to his life personal experiences. Obviously there are a lot more economic...
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