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...h GDP growth rates in some years haveshardly dented poverty. Moreover, other studies show that high inequality (particularly inequalitysof opportunity), to begin with, tempers economic growth itself (=-=Roemer 1998-=-; Pernia and Quibrias1999). In short, inequality is bad for both economic growth and poverty reduction.s8sThe human development index (HDI) is about human capabilities and, hence, indicativesof equali...

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...ly accepted by analysts as earlysas the 1960s through the 1980s that rapid population growth was more likely to impede thanspromote economic development (e.g., Coale and Hoover 1958; World Bank 1984; =-=Pernia 1987-=-;sMapa and Balisacan 2004). Such dynamic operates via reduced child care and human capitalsinvestment at the family level, lower household savings for business and governmentsinvestments, and constrai...

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...ts that the mortality rates of baby girls in thesPhilippines spike over at least two years after typhoons, as families struggle to make ends meetsand stretch their resources thin among many children (=-=Hsiang and Anttila-Hughes 2013-=-). Thesstudy adds that while 740 people die on average each year from causes related to typhoons,swhich occur with regularity in the Philippines, deaths of baby girls in areas exposed to thesstorms ar...

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...during the distribution itself, but also makesswomen and girls more desperate for food and other supplies and, therefore, more vulnerable tossexual exploitation as a means of survival (The Philippine =-=Star 2013-=-).sHuman trafficking. Multiple government institutions and NGOs have reported thatstrafficking is a major concern, particularly because some areas badly impacted by Yolanda –slike in Samar and Leyte –...