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Poverty Crisis in the Philippines by Aries Enardecido is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The Philippines suffers from significant poverty, with about 40% of the population living in conditions of abject poverty. This is exemplified at Smokey Mountain, a garbage dump in Manila where extremely poor people scavenge through trash to find items to recycle and earn a small amount of money. Addressing poverty is challenging due to a large foreign debt that consumes 90% of the government budget, leaving little for infrastructure and social programs. Some efforts have been made through slum clearance an
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- Aries Enardecido
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- EN