January 17, 2013

More talks on poverty

Just monitoring the news.

Anyway, it wasn't shown in this news clip below (which begins somewhere around 32:00 in the video below), but I think I mentioned that a declining hunger (Question: Nakaranas ba kayo ng gutom at walang makain nitong nakaraang tatlong buwan?) among families despite rising self-rated poverty (Question: Saan po ninyo ilalagay ang inyong pamilya sa card na ito [show card with words MAHIRAP and HINDI MAHIRAP; the space/line between the two words is also an option]) is an indication of effective hunger mitigation or containment efforts on the part of the government, considering the number of natural calamities experienced by the country before the survey.

For hunger to decline even among the poor, there had to be an effective anti-hunger program at the ground level, and the government needs to see which among their programs is working properly.

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