Poverty: The Philippine Scenario

Abrera access to services activities agricultural workers Aguilar Alcestis artisanal fishermen average bancas Barangay basic Bicol Cagayan Valley capital Carner cash Central Luzon Central Visayas coconut consumption crops earned economic growth employment estimated facilities Filipino fishing food threshold forest hawkers hectares identified Ilocos implementation incidence of poverty increasing industry kaingeros land landless rural workers landless workers lowland LUSSA major Mangahas mangroves ment Metro Manila million Mindanao minimum municipal National NCSO NEDA needs Nueva Ecija nutrition opportunities ownership Pasay City peddlers percent Philippines poor groups population poverty groups poverty incidence poverty line poverty threshold problem productive assets programs projects regions Research rice and corn rural areas scavengers sectors small farm owner-cultivator small owner-cultivators social sources of income subsistence Table tenants tion upland farmers urban areas urban poor USAID wages Western Visayas World Bank