'The Effects of Overpopulation in the Philippines\r'

'The Filipinos necessitate to deal with a major problem that poses a threat to economic growth. Overpopulation is the root of almost exclusively problems in the Philippines and for the country to progress, it hardly needs to bring in overpopulation and everything else provide follow. The problem of overpopulation is one of the factors that causes unemployment. Existing businesses in the country can no commodiouser grant jobs to all the workforce in the country.\r\nJobs be available, as yet due to lack of educational expertise, which can besides be traced from overpopulation, not numerous people ar qualified to handle the available jobs. Even the short letter Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry, which is currently booming in the country, cannot translate jobs to all Filipino citizens because not all Filipinos be well-versed in English. Overpopulation will not increase the allurement of taxes if the country could not give jobs to its population (cited in Orbeta, Pernia and Sanchez, 1999).\r\nThe National Statistics Office (NSO) indicates that population would be project at 90. 4 million in 2008 with a population growth rate of 2. 3 per centum annually, one of the racyest in Asia. collectable to the high unemployment rate, many of the workforce are not qualified as taxpayers which means that budget collection is low. This is considering the number of projects inevitable to stabilize poverty and some other related problems. In short, overpopulation creates unemployment; unemployment creates poverty; and poverty impedes economic growth.\r\nIf overpopulation could only be solved, the political relation could allot more of the budget requisite for growth and development rather than shelling come in huge funds for housing projects, feeding programs and other projects aimed at alleviating poverty. Overpopulation also results in abuse of the countrys instinctive resources. This, in turn leads to different environmental problems. befoulment is also a factor associated with overpopulation. Waste giving medication in the Philippines is a worsening problem which threatens the environment.\r\nThe surroundings and Natural Resource Accounting Project (ENRAP) indicated that households were rig to be the major contributors to air and water taint in the Philippines. (cited in Orbeta, Pernia and Indab, 1999) For air pollution in 1992, 64 share of particular matter, 89 percent of volatile degree centigrade and 90 percent of carbon monoxides come from households go 44 percent of biologic oxygen demand, 61 percent of suspended solids and 76 percent of Phosphate contribute to water pollution (cited in Orbeta, Pernia and Indab, 1999).\r\nPopulation growth also discover education and health in such bureaus that there are close birth-spacing, lower levels of alimentation intake, poor nutritional status, higher infant mortality, littler per capita health and food expenditures, poorer access to preventive and remedial medical care, lower schooling expenditures per child, lower grades for children enrolled in school, lower child intelligence. It was also pointed out that this setup is more evident in families that are down the stairs the poverty line (cited in Orbeta, Pernia, Jha and Deolalikar, 1999). The relatively high fertility rate also indicated that it affects education.\r\nIt was discovered that readjustment rates continued to increase despite rapid population growth and that per capita expenditure showed a even off even if enrollment rates were not modify by population growth (cited in Orbeta, Pernia and Schultz, 1998). These results were then compared using data from the Philippines and simulation results yield that while human capital expenditures rise, the increase does not content enough to sustain the level of per capita expenditure which earnestly affects the quality of education (cited in Orbeta and Pernia 1999).\r\nOn the other hand, overpopulation in the country still has a conv inced(p) outcome. The dollar remittances coming from Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW), the Philippine Peso still trades well versus the US Dollar. oneness way to solve the problem, the legislative branch of the governing body must enact a bill that will limit the number of children that a couple whitethorn collapse. China is already doing this but the one-child policy that they are implementing was deemed too harsh. Having a limit of two children would be just enough to maintain the country’s present population.\r\nIt may even be noteworthy that those people who do no have a good standard of living are the ones that have less children while the well-off families have only one to three number of children. Another way of solving overpopulation is by holding family planning campaigns and disseminating prim information on contraceptives. However, being a Catholic country, the Church stand remains to be an impediment. Due to this, the promotion of such initiative remains to be debated by the Government and the Church for a long time.\r\nAddressing the challenges caused by overpopulation remains to be difficult for the Philippine government to address due to the complications and relative problems it gives to individuals and society. The Philippine government must act accordingly to these problems and fire mechanisms to tackle the issue accordingly. In the end, if people and the government will work hand-in-hand to combat the adverse make of overpopulation, to foster continued growth and development.\r\n'