Families with limited or without resources cannot earn

sufficient income that can provide the minimum

nutritional requirements for daily living and the basic
necessities of clothing and shelter.
Prevents the families experiencing poverty in attaining
the minimum level of consumption for subsistence
living.
Poor families are faced with limited economic
opportunities; hence, they have limited schooling and
they are often unskilled and cannot find decent and
sustained employment.
1. Absolute Poverty
Lack of income to buy the basic food and necessities for
subsistence living. This is measured in terms of poverty
threshold and poverty incidence.
a. Poverty threshold – is the income needed to purchase these
minimum nutritional requirements and other basic
necessities for daily survival.
b. Poverty incidence – is the proportion of households in the
country with family income lower than the poverty
threshold or poverty line.
2. Relative Poverty
Refers to the structure on how the national income is
being distributed among households in an economy.
Absolute poverty – free meals, housing, and adequate clothing.
But these measures are temporary gap measures and do not
provide long term solutions to the problem of poverty.
Provide resources which include:
* Credit
* Skills and entrepreneurial training
* Cash transfers
All these measures have to be implemented together for
households to graduate from the poverty status.
*If poor households are given a resource like a livestock or
a sari-sari store without the other interventions there is
a chance that the resource-enhancing program may not
succeed.
Relative Poverty – measures like progressive taxation,
income transfers, and other programs meant to improve
the income distribution can be implemented.
* Discounts given to senior citizens in their purchase of
goods and services is a program meant to alleviate the
limited income of senior citizens who are mostly retired
individuals.
*Subsidies and grants given to students from poor
households so they can enroll in state universities and
colleges .
*Nonpayment of income tax below a certain income
threshold.
27 million in 1960 and In 2015, the population reached 102
million people increased by 75 million for 65 years. The country
is now considered the twelfth (12th) largest country in the
world.
Rapid population growth will reduce the available land per
person and can put a toll on productivity of the agricultural
sector.
Burden on the government to provide the social services
including education, health, and housing.
Allocating a larger proportion of its budget for social services
it is left with limited funds for other investments and
infrastructure development.
Can also strain the environment as the expansion of people
demands more land for housing and other economic activities.
On the other hand,
Increases population imply additional consumers and savers
of productivity, creativity, and entrepreneurship.
Surplus labor brought about by rapid population growth can
move temporarily or permanently to countries experiencing
slow population growth and deficiency and labor services.