Remember the tale of the frog put in tepid water that is slowly brought to a boil? The frog did not perceive the danger and was cooked to death. The extremely hot weather in the country, however, is no longer an amusing metaphor but a reality. Last Wednesday, the heat index hit 53°C in Occidental Mindoro, the highest recorded since March — cooler temperatures and heavy rains expected to be brought by super typhoon “Betty” this
Worse than being poor is to be undocumented: to possess no valid proof of identity, and to have no one to attest to who you are and where you came from. It is to live without access to the institutional mechanisms of modern society: the law and the courts, the school system, jobs and credit in the formal economy, public health care, etc. There has been a lot of talk lately about inclusiveness as a component of poverty alleviation. Used in this context, the concept seems just another buzzword. But it is more than a semantic shift. It mirrors real structural
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