PHILIPPINES.

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  • Author(s): Rhotes, Belinda
  • Source:
    New Internationalist. Sep2004, Issue 371, p36-36. 1p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      CONDOMINIUMS; RAGPICKERS; LIFESTYLES; POOR people; SOCIAL history
    • Subject Terms:
      PHILIPPINESReport Available
    • Abstract:
      The article presents information about Philippines. The route from Manila's international airport to the city centre is lined with expensive condominiums and teeming shanty towns. The Philippines is home to a handful of Asia's richest people, and a great many of its poorest. Images of scavengers picking their way through smoking rubbish dumps are perhaps as familiar to foreigners as that of Imelda Marcos wearing a glittering gown and another pair of shoes. Three governments since the fall of the Marcos dictatorship in 1986 have failed to lift the seriously poor, who account for around half of the population, above the poverty line.