Outreach Activities in Depoliticizing Poverty

            High levels of poverty and inequality have plagued Philippine society since time in memorial. For the past eight years, poverty has remained unchanged: 21.0 percent in 2006, 20.5 percent in 2009 and 19.7 percent in 2012 (NCSB, 2012). Being a problem that...

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Stuck in the Transition: The Filipino Family in Dominance

Structural functionalism is a broad perspective from the disciplines of sociology and anthropology that interprets society as a complex system that is beyond the human beings which comprise it. Its focal point of analysis are social structures and institutions within society, how they interact with...

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Money or Spending? Why Increased Finances Do Not Lead to Better Social Outcomes

Public expenditures are powerful tools of government to stimulate, direct and most crucially, democratize development; ensuring that the least of society does not get left behind. When allocated properly, public expenditures provide for the poor what markets easily overlook, such as education, health...

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