Poverty

Know the candidates's programs and plans on alleviating and reducing poverty.
Nicanor Perlas
Independent
Poverty is a complex issue, it is not merely an economic issue. Poverty also has a lot to do with peace and order situation of the country, if you notice the correlation between peace and order for example in ARMM which has a 60% rate of poverty and some of the other areas in the country. So there's the peace issue connected with it, you got micro-economic issues of employemnt especially in the rural areas. So agricultural modernization is going to be a very important part because 70% of the poverty is in rural areas and more than 60% are based in agriculture, fisheries and other similar industries. And on top of that, we have to have the proper macro-economic framweork for investements to flow in, for other types of services to flow in and then also, we have to have the proper business climate. So these are some of the highlights for the Philippines accoprding to a study that was done on many aspects.
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