Workers are faced with a multitude of problems, the
most common of which are: low wages and benefits, poor
working conditions, limited job choices, limited access to
basic services and problems in organizing and ...
This study dealt mainly with the effectiveness of post-EDSA NEDA
as a central planning agency. The hypothesis of the study was founded on
the historical materialist framework, particularly on Marx’s postulates on
the ...
Child labor has been one of the most pervasive problems throughout the world. In the
Philippines today, children continue to work for income despite legal safeguards to ensure
their protection against the dangers of ...
Health is considered to be one of the most precious assets in a
society, and its preservation and restoration are the primary goals of
every country specially if aims for development. It is therefore
disappointing to ...
Health is a primary and basic right of every citizen that every state or government is
obligated to provide. The Philippine General Hospital, the largest government owned and
controlled health institution, is known to ...
This is a comparative study of the different Development Studies
programs in the Philippines. It was instituted to respond to the
socioeconomic needs of the country by developing workers who are
skilled in the theoretical ...
How are the laws of the Philippines made? Laws come from the bills approved by
congress which they see fit to enhance the lives of the people. In order for congress to be
able to know how the people react to the proposed ...
The research study is an effort to analyze the community-based forest management
program of the government. [i dealt extensively on the impacts of the watershed project in
the socio-economic conditions of the community ...
Rice is a main staple across Asia, particularly in the Philippines, where rice-based
agrarian economies have historically sustained local food production (FAO, 2020). Over time,
traditional cultivation practices have ...
This critical inquiry aims to privilege the voices of the marginalized to understand land use
conversions (LUCs) in Sta. Cruz, Laguna, through the theoretical lens of Accumulation by
Dispossession (ABD), community-based ...
The World Bank reported that poverty reduction efforts worldwide will continue to slow
down in the current decade, especially with the identified polycrisis contributing to the cause.
Thankfully, the Philippines is ...
Sa loob ng ilang dekada, pagtatahong ang isa sa mga pangunahing industriya ng Kapital
ng Pangingisda ng Pilipinas, ang Navotas. Tuwing buwan ng Marso, sa gitna ng tirik ng araw at
panahon ng Kwaresma, ang mga magtatahong ...
Laguna de Bay, the Philippines’ largest freshwater lake, is undergoing socio-ecological
transformations driven by metabolic flows from Metro Manila, the country’s capital region. This positions
the lake as an urbanizing ...
Remittances remain a significant contribution to the Philippine economy of over 10
million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), and these remittances often take the form of housing
investments, or remittance houses, which ...
In the resettlement site, a claim to water is a claim to citizenship. This paper traces how waterless
resettlement sites are produced by neoliberal urbanism and the process of abjection (Ferguson,
1999; Kristeva, 1982). ...
Nagaganap lamang ang isang sakuna kung mayroong pagsasanib-pwersa ng bagay o
pangyayaring maaaring makapagdulot ng panganib (hazards), at ng bulnerabilidad
(vulnerability). Sa pagkakapook ng bansang Pilipinas sa heograpikal ...
Gentrification has increasingly operated as a central mechanism in advancing
market-oriented development strategy. In the context of the Philippines’ liberalized and
deregulated environment, the influx of Chinese capital ...
The Del Monte pineapple plantation in Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon, established during the
American colonial period, stands as a historical testament to land dispossession, foreign
agribusiness control, and the entrenchment ...