Many Filipino “thought leaders” continue to carry on about food security, rising prices, the peso exchange rate and bad infrastructure like baying dogs in the middle of a quiet night. What they seem to have lost sight of is the root of ALL Filipino poverty: overpopulation. This little fact about the Philippines is important because…
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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…
The Yellowtard community is experiencing internal strife after their “vice president” Leni Robredo reportedly urged Filipinos “to curb their spending habits, save and find ways to earn money”. The Manila Bulletin report cited how Robredo encouraged Filipinos to take responsibility for their own wellbeing and take initiative to find ways to respond to inflation rather…
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Inflation is an economic phenomenon that is an outcome of cause-and-effect. And, unfortunately, it contributes to the expense line of the poverty equation — higher prices result in weaker purchasing power. What this means for the average consumer is that she will simply need to find ways to make more money to make ends meet….
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Poverty is really a simple problem. But because poverty is so ill-understood, so many Filipinos remain poor. The worst thing about this unique brand of poverty Filipinos suffer is that they blame their poverty on the government — or worse on a supernatural being (such as God or Satan). In reality poverty is just the…
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