We need more decent classrooms for our millions of public school pupils. We need more textbooks and other teaching materials for them. We need to increase the number of years in basic education to be at par with our East Asian neighbors. But above all, we need world class teachers. The greatest service we can render to the poor is to make quality education available to their children. Quality basic education for the poor is the most effective means of combatting poverty.
The historical trends, empirical findings, and policy updates are discussed in detail in the essays compiled in this book. The most convincing argument that supports the thesis of the book, i.e. that population growth is a poitive factor in attaining sustainable human development, is found in the foreword to the book, which is adopted from an article written by Mr. Roberto de Ocampo, former Finance Secretary of the Philippines and multi-awarded finance official in Asia. Thanks to the continuing growth of the Philippines population, Filipinos are in more than 100 countries all over the world, contributing much-needed foreign echange and purchasing power to the Philippine economy and fostering the human and spiritual development of the most diverse of peoples and cultures on this planet.
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