Pinoys are generally poor?

[jiggy101]

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Thats the trade off if you want to live in this Island paradise. You get to be poor.

[jiggy101]

poooooooooooorrrrrrrr pinoy

[Velvett]

poverty places one in a cycle: you are poor hence you become short-sighted (survival thinking: what will i eat TODAY?). you are short-sighted and so you remain poor.

[ronna]

ang kapobre sa pinoy is related sa atong kababaw sa kalipay kunu. Based on study pinoys are the 2nd most happiest people in Asia. Gamay lang kwarta lipay dayun! they dont mostly think of the future.

What do you think? Is this true? If its true, is it good?

Look at the people from the rich countries gamay problema hikog dayun.

hmm kinsa diay ang first? hehehe

[SamuraiArcher]

...depends on each person's definition of poor....maybe financially poor i agree.....pero daghan pa man sad richness nga puede i-acquire nga way monetary value....so di gihapon ko maka ingon nga pobre na lang jud....dato man in other ways....

i agree, but ang pasabot tingali ani kay financially poor gyud....

[giddyboy]

We have to put this context in a proper perspective.

Being poor is being impoverished. Poverty is the condition of lacking economic access to fundamental human needs such as food, shelter and safe drinking water. While some define poverty primarily in economic terms, others consider social and political arrangements to be intrinsic.

Poor? how poor? what is our COMPARISON? what POVERTY THRESHOLD or POVERTY LINE should we base upon?

IF WE COMPARE COUNTRIES:
if u compare us to US, Japan, or Europe (developed nations), of course we are very poor (as developing nation)...
if u compare us to Vietnam, Malaysia, or Thailand, we are a bit poorer than them...
if u compare us to Bangladesh or Haiti, they are poorer than us...

IF WE USE POVERTY THRESHOLD LEVELS:

The poverty threshold, or poverty line, is the minimum level of income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate standard of living. In practice, like the definition of poverty, the official or common understanding of the poverty line is significantly higher in developed nations than in developing countries.

Say for example, u r living a poverty threshold of 80 pesos a day in the phils., while somebody in the US is living a poverty threshold of $20 a day...

HOW TO MEASURE ABSOLUTE & RELATIVE POVERTY:

An example of an absolute poverty measurement would be the percentage of the population eating less food than is required to sustain the human body (approximately 2000-2500 kilocalories per day).

Relative poverty, in contrast, views poverty as socially defined and dependent on social context. One relative measurement would be to compare the total wealth of the poorest one-third of the population with the total wealth of richest 1% of the population.


ANYWAYS, in summary, it takes a lot of statistical tools and analysis to define how poor a certain country or region is based on given standards.

ON POVERTY ALLEVIATION STRATEGIES, here's a good link: "Notes on Poverty in the Philippines, 2002 Edition"

http://www.apmforum.com/columns/orientseas49.htm

[gareb]

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