Livelihood Finance and Training POVERTY IN THE PHILIPPINES Uplift Training By Vivian G. Villegas – Uplift 2004 General Objective: To understand and know about some causes and effects of poverty‚ its impact on society. Objectives: At the end of the seminar the participant will be able to: 1. Describe the situation of poverty in the Philippines. 2. Identify some causes and effects of poverty. 3. Enumerate some programs and some solutions to alleviate poverty. Participant: All Staff Length
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Position of Poverty In the world we live in today there are only two kinds of poverty as identified by John Kenneth Galbrith in “The Position of Poverty.” Galbrith made a distinction and labeled the distinction as “case poverty” and “insular poverty.” According to Galbrith case poverty is defined as‚ restricted to an individual and his or her family and often seems to be the caused by alcoholism‚ ignorance‚ mental deficiency‚ discrimination‚ or specific disabilities. Insular poverty on
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Poverty in modern era As many of the people in the world are concerned what to wear‚ what to buy‚ where to go on vacation est. the others continuously are facing the evil‚ so called poverty‚ not knowing if they are going to have lunch in the next day or many of them in the next week. The poverty is not a new problem but it is one of the biggest problems‚ nowadays. On one hand‚ there is rapid development of the technology‚ everyday there are new mobile phones with better and higher performances
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Poverty and inequality in the Philippines remains a challenge. In the past four decades‚ the proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined slowly and unevenly 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
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this part of my assignment I aim to look at poverty. I will try to explain what is meant by the term poverty‚ and the impact this is having on children and young people. I will look at what has been done nationally to eradicate the problem and try to discuss whether these measures have been effective. Sociologist and researchers have favoured two different approaches to poverty: absolute poverty and relative poverty. The concept of absolute poverty is grounded in the idea of subsistence- the basis
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Outline and Asses Functionalist explanations of social inequality (40marks) Functionalism is a concencus theory that focused on the unity and harmony of society. Functionalists believe that society is a system that works together in order for it to funtction. Inequality is the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions in a society and recurrent patterns of unequal distributions of goods‚ wealth‚ opportunities etc. There are many types of inequality such as social
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The Incessant Agony of Poverty The rich becomes richer while the poor becomes poorer. Only few amass excessive wealth while countless people cannot even afford their basic necessities. Every day‚ millions of people suffer from hunger‚ oppression‚ and death because of this problem that still has not been solved until now – poverty. This social issue is probably the worst among all the social problems Filipinos are experiencing. Not only does it impede the country from being economically progressed
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reality that is mentioned in the film that poverty is the main problem of our country because corruption seems more fun in the Philippines – corrupt officials enjoy higher standard of living while millions pay the price of poverty‚ hunger and death. And still many of our countrymen lack basic access to health‚ food and shelter. I feel sad and deep pity for those people who experienced poverty. But for me‚ it is not just the corruption that causes the poverty in our country‚ but also‚ our lack of love
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Major Perspectives of sociology Three major Perspectives 4/26/2013 Brianna Slaton The Three Sociological Perspectives In today’s society many people may look at society in different ways. What you see and what I say may be totally different. You may present something in a different way than I would. Though we approach a topic differently does not mean we are wrong or right. This is just how society as a whole works. It has been this way in the past and is still present now and will
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greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members’ then how can this nation of ours live up to its name ‘Great Britain’. What do you think poverty looks like? Is it starving‚ malnourished people in Africa or India living in shanti towns; Or is it the images shown to us by charities and films like ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. The reality is that poverty is closer to home than you would like to think… Images of a perfect childhood‚ playing out with friends on careless summer days‚ being called in
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