DEVC 10

• [Module 1] Our community is a complex web of interrelationships among people who are individually unique but bound by its environment, history, culture, and social and political systems.
• [Module 1] 80% of the student population of a Los Baños school belonged to low-income bracket families that were beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
• [Module 1] The poor academic performance of many students is likely due to poverty.
• [Module 1] The poverty incidence of the whole province of Laguna is 5%.
• [Module 1] The Gurong Pahinungod Program (GPP) is an educational development project of the UP College of Education and the Department of Education that fielded UP graduates in underserved public schools to serve as volunteer teachers for one school year.
• [Module 1] James Fallows is an American writer for The Atlantic who believed that the Philippines has a "damaged culture" that pulls as down as a nation.
• [Module 1] Social factors like values, economic, cultural, environmental, historical, political are all related to the existence of poverty.
• [Module 1] Poverty is the most infamous symptom of underdevelopment.
• [Module 1] Underdevelopment is a complex web of problems in a society that makes life difficult for many people.
• [Module 1] Development involves all processes, factors, and forces in society that addresses problems to make people's lives and their living environment better.
• [Module 1] According to the 1987 Constitution, the Philippines has a presidential form of government with 3 equal branches: executive (president and cabinet secretaries), legislative, and judiciary.
• [Module 1] The Philippines has 82 provinces, 149 cities, 1,485 municipalities, and 42,027 barangays.
• [Module 1] The Philippines has 17 regions, most of which are administrative except for one, the Bagsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) which has its own set of elected officials.
• [Module 1] The PSA (2021) reported that poverty incidence in the Philippines was 18.1% which mean that around 19.99 million Filipinos were living below the poverty threshold.
• [Module 1] In 2021, 5.9% Filipinos could not meet their basic food needs and were thus living below the subsistence level.
• [Module 1] In 2021, a Filipino family of 5 needed at least 8,379 to meet its basic food needs for a month.
• [Module 1] In 2021, the sectors with the highest poverty incidence are: fisherfolk, farmers, children, and individuals residing in rural areas.
• [Module 1] According to The World Bank (2021), the majority of the global poor live in rural areas, are poorly educated, employed in the agricultural sector, and are under 18 years of age.
• [Module 1] The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that almost all nations of the world are interconnected with one another, especially in terms of economic activities and political relations.
• [Module 1] No country is totally independent of others, not even North Korea.
• [Module 1] Why are international relations and politics inevitable?

  (1) Trade allows nations to survive (2) Multinational and Transnational Corporations are practically in the thick of our daily life, online and offline (3) Many nations in the so-called Global South are former colonies of historically powerful nations in Europe (4) Many nations still fight over resources.
• [Module 1] No nation possesses all raw materials — raw, semi-processed, or processed — it needs to ensure that its citizens survive, its social and economic infrastructure are built, and its communication system works.
• [Module 1] Trade imbalances are part of trade.
• [Module 1] Foreign corporations, especially TNCs, not only influence our country's economic structures and political affairs, but also shape our consumption patterns, values system, and ideological leanings, and even affect our natural environment.
• [Module 1] Critical development scholars think that there are "neocolonial" relations that persist between the colonizers and their former colonies.
• [Module 1] Some scholar argue that neocolonial relations help perpetuate social injustice in former colonies.
• [Module 1] Local governance in the country has three levels of elected officials: (1) provinces and independent cities (2) component cities and municipalities (3) barangays
• [Module 1] Poverty is worse in the Global South than in the Global North.
• [Module 1] Neo-imperialist nations have also been formed, with the economic giants capitalizing on their more substantial economic and military power to influence domestic economic and political affairs in developing countries.
• [Module 1] Development is not a simple social reality. It is interwoven with most, if now all, aspects of human life and society.
• [Module 1] Some critical thinkers argue that the many kinds of power play of the Global North have actually led to or created wars, displacements, and extreme poverty.
• [Module 2] Necessity is the mother of invention.
• [Module 2] One of the underlying assumptions of DevCom is that societal problems may be traced to root causes and these may in turn be remedied by information and communication.
• [Module 2] Poverty is the most menacing out of all the societal problems.
• [Module 2] Poverty is a problem brings with it a host of other virulent problems, such as societal instability, vices, and diseases.
• [Module 2] Unemployed - you do not earn a living.
• [Module 2] Underemployed - your job requires skills that are way below what you trained for, thus, you are paid way below your worth.
• [Module 2] 7 out of 10 most highly populated nations are developing countries.
• [Module 2] The 10% of the Philippine population controls 90% of its economic resources.
• [Module 2] The Philippines should not be poor. It is very rich in natural resources. Being in the tropical zone, it is also very rich in genetic resources.