MANILA, July 6, 2011—Prospects for the Philippine economy remain favorable in 2011 as investments, private consumption and the services sector are expected to strengthen. The challenge now is sustaining the momentum of reform for achieving inclusive or broad-based growth that benefits the poor.
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This is good news but a 15% hunger rate is still too high. No one in the Philippines, or elsewhere, should have to go hungry. PAS is working to help alleviate this problem. I hope you’ll join us.
Based on SWS data, the latest hunger rate is the lowest since June 2007, when the recorded figure was at 14.7 percent.
In its survey, SWS asked 1,200 respondents nationwide: “In the last 3 months, did it happen even once that your family experienced hunger and not have anything to eat?”
Those who answered in the affirmative were further asked: “Did it happen ‘only once,’ ‘a few times,’ ‘often’ or ‘always?’”
SWS classified experiencing hunger only once or a few times as “moderate hunger,” while going hungry often or always was categorized as “severe hunger.”
Nationwide, those who experienced moderate hunger decreased from 15.7 percent (3.2 million families) in March to 13.1 percent (2.6 million families) in June.
Those who experienced severe hunger fell from 4.7 percent (950,000 families) in March to 2 percent (403,000 families) in June.
By geographical area, overall hunger rates decreased in Luzon outside Metro Manila and Metro Manila, but rose in the Visayas and Mindanao.
Read more here. Also, please consider a donation to the PAS soup kitchen.
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The following video shows a brief address from the Pope regarding world hunger. His words are especially applicable to countries like the Philippines where hunger remains a real threat.
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My wife and I were fortunate enough to be able to help serve at our mobile soup kitchen last fall. I’ve uploaded some of the photos to our Facebook page. Go there and check them out when you get a chance and become a fan of Philippine Aid Society if you’re not already!
Click here to visit the album.
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Bernardo Villegas has written a great article explaining why poverty is not caused by population growth. Some in the Philippines are attempting to move the Philippines down the barbaric path of the Chinese by coercing citizens to limit their offspring. Villegas explains why this approach does not address the actual problems that cause poverty.
Usually emotionally agitated by the sight of families in squatter areas having numerous children, these well-intentioned “social engineers” propose to limit the number per children per fertile woman to two. That’s the typical knee-jerk reaction that has not been subjected to a more thorough analysis.
Villegas also correctly identifies the causes of poverty as (including) misguided economic policies and widespread corruption in the public and private sector. I highly recommend his article entitled, “The Folly of Stopping at Two.”
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MANILA, Philippines — Concerned government agencies are working double time to rescue 2.4 million children from hard labor and instead send them to school, Malacañang announced Wednesday.
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