With over 7,000 islands, the Philippines has many geographic and infrastructural obstacles to creating uniform improvements in people's lives. There is considerable regional diversity in human development, for example in Mindanao 50% of people live below the poverty line and 1.6 million are dependent on assistance from the World Food Programme. About 80% of poor families live in rural areas, typically small subsistence farmers, indigenous groups and fisherfolk. The government has identified modernisation of agriculture and fisheries as a key strategy for poverty reduction, with microfinance as the ideal mechanism.
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