Population, poverty, and education have formed complex cause-and-effect relationships in the past few years. Issues involving these three components continue to be the root of all debates here in the Philippines. Issues were raised regarding which component the government must focus more to stabilize the economic status of the Philippines. This is what the first part of the paper seeks, to show that population must be number one on government's checklist. Population and education problems …showed first 75 words of 2053 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2053 total…run, they must quickly formulate new ones. The government must keep in mind that there are three babies born every minute. Taking more time studying the growth of the Philippine population will be beneficial in the future. Again, in order to reduce poverty and improve quality of education, the government must formulate a clear, strong, and effective population policy which will slow down the population growth and eventually lead to the development of the Philippines.