The Philippines has one of the world's highest rates of income inequality. In 2018, the Philippines had one of the highest rates of income inequality in East Asia, with an income Gini coefficient of 42.3 percent. According to Oxfam and Development Finance International's 2022 Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) index report, the Philippines ranked 102nd out of 161 countries in terms of reducing inequalities. In the previous CRI report in 2020, the Philippines was ranked 109th out of 158 countries.

Inequality in the Philippines is a serious problem in the Philippines that our community should take an action to solve this issue. Our country needs to improve in terms of equality such as unequal wages for workers in cities and provinces, unequal treatment for LGBTQ2+ society, unequal treatment for underprivileged people, and many other issues of inequality.

We started this petition because we believe that equality in our country is the key to our country's development and unity. To achieve the equality we seek for all, we require the assistance of our government, as they are the only ones with the power to prevent inequality, and also we seek help from the cooperation of each member of society to make things equal for all no matter your job, gender, status in life, we should be equal in our country and community.

Ivy Christal Bathan

Russian Kate Zubiri

(12-St. Augustine)

World Bank Group. (2022, November 23). PHILIPPINES: Reducing Inequality Key to Becoming a Middle-Class Society Free of Poverty. World Bank. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/11/24/ph-reducing-inequality-key-to-becoming-a-middle-class-society-free-of-poverty