Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-g8jcs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-27T14:40:16.467Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Demographic and Economic Aspects of Poverty in the Rural Philippines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Aram A. Yengoyan
Aram A. Yengoyan
Affiliation:
The University of Michigan
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Poverty in Southeast Asia has been analyzed in numerous ways (squatters, high population densities, dietary deficiencies, war, disease, etc.) though there has been no single systematic work which attempts to delineate all socio-economic and political forces which create the evolution of rural poverty. Although rural poverty in Southeast Asia is widespread and in most ways represents poverty in its most acute form, I am purposely not dealing with poverty per se. My aim is to discuss how regional, economic and population factors such as types of cultivation and labor requirements influence the variety and intensity of rural poverty in the rural Philippines. In particular the hypothesis under investigation is that where a landscape is economically committed to a single cropping activity (such as an export crop) which is highly labor intensive, the worse aspects of rural poverty commonly emerge. Furthermore, where a regional landscape is characterized by a diversity of agricultural patterns—some labor intensive crops, some capital intensive crops—the scale and character of rural poverty is of a different order or at least of a different magnitude.

Type
Demography as an Aid to Comparative Study
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 1974 , pp. 58 - 72
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1974

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Friend, Theodore (1963) ‘The Philippine Sugar Industry and the Politics of Independence, 1929–1935’, The Journal of Asian Studies, 22: 179–92.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Geertz, Clifford (1963) Agricultural Involution, The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
Gross, Daniel R. (1971) ‘The Great Sisal Scheme’, Natural History, 80: 48–55.Google Scholar
Gross, Daniel R. and Underwood, Barbara A. (1971) ‘Technological Change and Caloric Costs: Sisal Agriculture in Northeastern Brazil’, American Anthropologist, 73: 725–40.Google Scholar
Houston, Charles O. (1954) ‘The Philippine Sugar Industry: 1934–1950’, Journal of East Asiatic Studies 3: 370–407.Google Scholar
Lachica, Eduardo (1971) Huk: Philippine Agrarian Society in Revolt, Manila: Solidaridad Publishing House.Google Scholar
Larkin, John A. (1971) ‘The Causes of an Involuted Society: A Theoretical Approach to Rural Southeast Asian History’, The Journal of Asian Studies, 30: 783–95.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lewis, Oscar (1966) ‘The Culture of Poverty’, Scientific American, 215: 19–25.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lewis, Oscar (1968) A Study of Slum Culture: Backgrounds for La Vida. New York: Random House.Google Scholar
Lynch, Frank (1970a) A Bittersweet Taste of Sugar: A Preliminary Report on the Sugar Industry in Negros Occidental. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.Google Scholar
Lynch, Frank (1970b) ‘Beyond the Minimum Wage: Sugarlandia in the Seventies’, Philippine Sociological Review, 18: 131–49.Google Scholar
McPhelin, W. (1970) ‘Observations on Negros Occidental (July, 1969)’ in Lynch, Frank, A Bittersweet Taste of Sugar: A Preliminary Report on the Sugar Industry in Negros Occidental. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.Google Scholar
Runes, I. T. (1939) General Standards of Living and Wages of Workers in the Philippine Sugar Industry. Manila: Philippine Council, Institute of Pacific Relations.Google Scholar
Szanton, David L. (1967a) ‘Estancia, Iloilo: town in transition’ in Modernization: its impact in the Philippines, edited by Bello, Walden F. and Roldan, Maria C., IPC Paper #4, Quezon City, Ateneo de Manila University Press, Pages 64–86.Google Scholar
Szanton, David L. (1967b) ‘The Fishing Industry of Estancia, Iloilo’ in Modernization: its impact in the Philippines II, edited by Guthrie, George M., Lynch, Frank, and Bello, Walden F., IPC Paper # 5, Quezon City, Ateneo de Manila University Press, Pages 4–34.Google Scholar
Szanton, David L. (1971) Estancia in Transition: Economic Growth in a Rural Philippine Community, IPC Paper # 9, Quezon City, Ateneo de Manila University Press.Google Scholar
Von Oppenfeld, H. (1959) ‘Some Internal Causes of Rural Poverty in the Philippines’, The Malayan Economic Review, 4: 42–53.Google Scholar
Yengoyan, Aram A. (1971) ‘Sex Preferences, Economic Differentials and Family Planning: A Case from Capiz’.Paper read at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting,March 1971,Washington, D.C.Google Scholar