Pro-poor policies that are being touted to achieve a middle-class society may be insufficient as the Philippine middle class has significantly expanded and their needs are different from those of the lowest income class, according to local economists.
PRO-POOR policies that are being touted to achieve a middle-class society may be insufficient as the Philippine middle class has significantly expanded and their needs are different from those of the lowest income class, according to local economists.
“The result is the design of social and economic programs that cannot adequately serve the needs of the differentiated groups in the society, and take into account differential needs of different groups,” he added. “By 2018, broadly defined, ‘middle class’ constituted more than twice all families classified as poor; growth even in rural areas and among those who employed in family-owned businesses,” Tuaño said.
“Shifting opinion of different socioeconomic classes of urgent national priorities has implications on social consensus and policy, and also ultimately choices in the elections,” Tuaño said.
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