Corruption and Poverty
What is POVERTY AND CORRUPTION?
CORRUPTION
Corruption occurs when one person seeks personal gain by taking unfair and hidden advantage of someone else’s position, status, or condition. It happens when the truth of a product, service, or activity is altered in such a way that another person ends up being cheated or endangered. The dictionary labels corruption as “evil” and something marked by “perversion, venality and dishonesty”. It is clearly considered by most to be an immoral, if not always illegal, act. When corruption does occur, there is no doubt that it is harmful to society.
In the Philippine’s society, Corruption is rampant on its Government. Their effect always reflects to its people. Analyzing the roots of corruption is a long way but most of its causes were due to faulty system, office politics, conflict of interest and greed for power. There are many effects of corruption that may brings harm to community, like for an example low economy rates, low investments, hunger, slow improvement, quality of education and worst is poverty.
POVERTY
In the Philippine context, poverty is one of the major problems that the Government must find a solution. A mentioned above earlier, poverty is also one of the causes of corruption. But what truly is poverty?
At its simplest poverty refers to a basic lack of the means of survival; the poor are those who, even in normal circumstances, are unable to feed and clothe themselves properly and risk death as a consequence. Poverty is the lack of basic human needs, such as clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter, because of the inability to afford them. A review of empirical studies suggests that the concept of poverty as absolute deprivation continues to be of primary relevance in countries where per capita income is low and the incidence of poverty is
CORRUPTION
Corruption occurs when one person seeks personal gain by taking unfair and hidden advantage of someone else’s position, status, or condition. It happens when the truth of a product, service, or activity is altered in such a way that another person ends up being cheated or endangered. The dictionary labels corruption as “evil” and something marked by “perversion, venality and dishonesty”. It is clearly considered by most to be an immoral, if not always illegal, act. When corruption does occur, there is no doubt that it is harmful to society.
In the Philippine’s society, Corruption is rampant on its Government. Their effect always reflects to its people. Analyzing the roots of corruption is a long way but most of its causes were due to faulty system, office politics, conflict of interest and greed for power. There are many effects of corruption that may brings harm to community, like for an example low economy rates, low investments, hunger, slow improvement, quality of education and worst is poverty.
POVERTY
In the Philippine context, poverty is one of the major problems that the Government must find a solution. A mentioned above earlier, poverty is also one of the causes of corruption. But what truly is poverty?
At its simplest poverty refers to a basic lack of the means of survival; the poor are those who, even in normal circumstances, are unable to feed and clothe themselves properly and risk death as a consequence. Poverty is the lack of basic human needs, such as clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter, because of the inability to afford them. A review of empirical studies suggests that the concept of poverty as absolute deprivation continues to be of primary relevance in countries where per capita income is low and the incidence of poverty is