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Missing Targets: An alternative MDG midterm report Table 8: Summary of CAR Performance on Health, Hunger, Poverty, Environment and Gender MDG Indicator Source: NSCB Prevalence (% Of Population) Rank Nationwide Poverty (2003) 31.2 11/17 Malnutrition (2003) 16.3 17/17 Maternal Deaths Rate (2005) 0.8 9-11/17 Infants Death Rate (2005) 10.7 5/17 Access to Safe Water (2005) 88.8 5/17 (ranked 9th) and Masbate (ranked 3rd), are the only non-Mindanaoan provinces in the 2003 top ten. 36 In the regional poverty hierarchy, CAR is ranked 11th among the 17 regions and registered the least malnourishment rate. However, it is within the top 5 in the infant death rate hierarchy and in the middle in the maternal death rate hierarchy. Like its HDI, the Quality of Life Index (QLI) among the CAR provinces also varies, with Benguet in the top 20 (0.81, ranked 8), Abra and Mt. Province in the top 20 (0.726/ranked 21 and 0.691/ranked 26, respectively), Ifugao in the top 30 (0.655, ranked 31), Apayao in the top (0.603, ranked 45), and Kalinga in the top 50 (0.588, ranked 54). 37 The varying degrees of the HDI and QLI among the CAR provinces show a skewed distribution of wealth despite their relative contiguousness. This seems to favor provinces with highly urbanizing centers like Benguet which hosts Baguio City and the center of the region’s mining industry. Table 6 shows that poverty increases as one moves from the Benguet gateway into the “inner” provinces. In terms of natural resources, CAR is one of the richest regions in the Philippines and represents 11 percent of the country’s agricultural land which produces 60 percent of the country’s temperate vegetables. Around 80 percent of the total Philippine gold production is mined from the region’s mighty Cordillera mountain range which also serves as the headwaters of Northern Luzon’s major river systems. The potential electrical capacity of these rivers is estimated to be at least 5 million kilowatts or 56 percent of the country’s total electric need. But like Ifugao, CAR has failed to capitalize on those resources. In fact, these resources are being siphoned out—as in the case of the mining companies that are mostly foreign-owned, and the hydroelectric dams that power Luzon’s cities and industries— at the cost of the environment and the region’s diverse cultural heritage. This irony is illustrated in the region’s lofty rank in the poverty index (i.e. the 11th poorest or the 7th richest among the 17 regions) but relatively low ranking of most of its province’s in terms of the HDI and QLI. • 36 NSCB. 37 Field Health Service Information System Annual Report 2005. 84 S O C I A L W A T C H P H I L I P P I N E S
Missing Targets: An alternative MDG midterm report Bicol hopes against hope to attain MDGs By MAGDALENA C. MONGE, DANTE O. bISMONTE, EMILIO PAZ and ROY LAYOSA* Introduction BICOL is the 4th poorest region in the country as of 2003. It may have graduated from being the 2nd in 2000, but it still has 2.3 million people living below the poverty threshold. Worse, this vulnerable segment of the population tragically felt the wrath of supertyphoons that hit Bicol before 2006 ended. Underdevelopment coupled with laxity in disaster management make poverty seem like an endless trail for the Bicolanos. * Magdalena C. Monge is a research writer; Dante O. Bismonte is the SWP-South Luzon Convenor, Board of Trustees of PRRM and Private Sector Representative of RDC V, Emilio Paz is the Board Chairman / Project Head of the POMCAT and Roy Layosa is a Staff of the Tanggol Kalikasan in Region V. S O C I A L W A T C H P H I L I P P I N E S 85
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