Wednesday, 10 August 2011 00:52

The looming food crisis, is it just a media blitz? An alarmist point of view or it is for real? There is food crisis if supply of food is in adequate and we see people falling in line to buy food and, in extreme cases, there is a breakout of food riots.

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Tuesday, 07 December 2010 06:59

I.    INTRODUCTION

The “Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program” or the 4Ps under the administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was developed as a way to uplift a worsened economic condition and it was supposed to be a stimulus package for the poor. It was a fact that the start of her term (or succession) was a period of political and economic uncertainty in the country. Arroyo, being a practicing economist, and based on official National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) economic growth figures , it was indeed certain that she handled the economic problem very well earning praises from Georgetown classmate, and Former US President Bill Clinton, stating that her tough decisions put the Philippine economy back into shape. However, in the United Nations Human Development Report from 2009-2010 and studies made by local survey research firms show worsening, instead of improving, poverty level. Others mere saying it was a political solution to get the poor sector, especially in the National Capital Region (NCR) to support the Arroyo Administration.

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