FRANCISCO S. TATAD
FRANCISCO S. TATAD

CONTRARY to the political propaganda, the incidence of poverty in the Philippines is growing—and it is a rural and agriculture-based phenomenon. This is what the statistics from the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Philippine Statistics Authority tell us. Urban poverty has not been banished, but the urban poor have a new technological view of their condition. The poor in Samar or in Caraga are poor because they don’t have enough to eat; the poor in Tondo or Payatas are poor because on top of everything else, they are not on Twitter or Facebook. It’s no longer merely a question of whether or not they eat.

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