Faces of Philippine poverty : four cases from the Visayas /

Faces of Philippine poverty : four cases from the Visayas / edited by Ricardo G. Abad, Rowe V. Cadelina and Violeta Lopez-Gonzaga - Manila, Philippines : Philippine Social Science Council, c1986 - xii, 229 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

The Poverty condition of artisanal fisherman in Iloilo province -- Mechanization, labor employment and poverty in Negros : sugarcane workers' response to technological change in sugar farming -- Scavengers in Cebu City : a case study of urban poverty -- Poverty in the Upland : Lowland migrant Swiddeners in the Balinsasayao forest, Negros Occidental -- Philippine poverty studies : concepts, problems and an alternative approach

The chapters in this book originated as research report of the first collaborative study of the Visayas research consortium (VRC).


PHILIPPINES -- ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

HC 457.V57 .A23 1986