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Bitonio, DPA
MPA 213 Management of Rural and Urban
Development
Rural development is a
subset of the broader
term “development”.
Development is a
universally cherished
goal of individuals,
families, communities
and nations all over the
world.
The term rural development connotes overall
development of rural areas with a view to improve
quality of life of rural people.
As a phenomenon: it is As a strategy: it is
the end result of designed to improve
interactions between the economic and
various physical social well being of a
technological, economic, specific group of
people – the rural
socio cultural and poor
institutional factors
As a discipline, it is multi-
disciplinary in nature,
representing an
intersection of agricultural,
social, behavioral,
engineering and
management sciences.
Robert Chamber, 1983
http://www.socialwatch.org/sites/default/files/pdf/en/articleb2001_phi.pdf
• These are among the key findings of the report titled
Making Growth Work for the Poor : A Poverty
Assessment fur the Philippines released May 20,
2018 by the World Bank.
• From 2006 to 2015, the latest available data, the
report says that robust economic growth helped the
poverty rate in the Philippines to fall by 5 percentage
points. Poverty declined from 26.6 percent in 2006 to
21.6 percent in 2015, due to factors like the
expansion of jobs outside agriculture, government
transfers, in particular to qualified poor Filipinos
through the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino
Program, and remittances.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/05/30/philippines-
poverty-rate-declines-more-well-paying-jobs-and-opportunities-needed
Official statistics in 2015 show that 21,927,009
individuals in the country are estimated to be living
below the national poverty line.
https://businessmirror.com.ph/revisiting-our-poverty-statistics/
The poverty threshold, poverty limit
or poverty line is the minimum level of
income deemed adequate in a particular
country. ... In October 2015, the World Bank
updated the international poverty line to
$1.90 a day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_threshold#/media/File:Percent_Poverty_World_Map.png
According to the
PSA, the national
poverty threshold in
2015 stood at P10,969
per month (P131,628
per annum), meaning a
family of five needed to
earn that much to be
able to eat, have
shelter, travel, buy
medicine, or go to
school, among other
life necessities.
Making Growth Work for the Poor : A Poverty
Assessment for the Philippines
Lino Tabangin
Josie Lee Villaver
Himaya B. Bitonio
Reference
Rostow’s Five Stages of Growth
• http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/economics
/rostows-five-stages-of-growth-
explained/38235 (Accessed Aug 11, 2018)
• Katar Singh
Rural Development, 2nd Ed. Sage Publication
New Delhi, India