Category: Society & Culture

“Kare-kare can’t be eaten with potatoes” and other issues to do with the rice “crisis”

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“Kare-kare can’t be eaten with potatoes” and other issues to do with the rice “crisis”

Rice, specifically its availability on the cheap, is an issue in the Philippines because many Filipinos depend on it. The trouble with this dependence is that it is not matched by a domestic capability to meet domestic demand. This is why the prices of rice are so volatile — because supply is so unstable and…

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Lifestyle, Society & Culture

Poverty is no excuse for being poor

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Poverty is no excuse for being poor

From what I gather, seeing the sorts of thinking that pervades the poltical chatter, the poor are too poor to extricate themselves from poverty. And so the poor are destined to be poor forever, it seems. It is easy to arrive at this conclusion in a society that habitually blames government for their poverty. The…

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Economy, Society & Culture