The economy of the Philippines was very developed in the 1960s and 1970s. Why are you poor now?

Because Philippine politics has been in turmoil.

Under the influence of the Green Revolution and the agricultural harvest plan, the Philippine grain increased by 5.2% annually in 1960s and 1970s, and basically achieved short-term self-sufficiency, but it stagnated again in 1960s and 1980s. The problem of food security is becoming more and more serious. With the wave of world agricultural mechanization in1980s, the Philippines has carried out many reforms to improve agricultural productivity and modernization. The level of agricultural mechanization has been greatly improved, but it has not brought about an increase in grain output and farmers' income. Although the improvement of mechanization level improves agricultural productivity and agricultural scale production efficiency, it also directly reduces the labor demand of agricultural production and stimulates the enthusiasm of landlords, feudal families and big capitalists for further land merger and scale expansion.

Agricultural production of non-food crops, mainly raw materials or other cash crops, continues to expand, which undoubtedly greatly reduces the land that farmers can rent and agricultural employment opportunities. As a result, the land system did not transition to yeoman farmers, but turned to the extreme aspect of privatization. Farmers have no land for farming and jobs, and the vast majority of farmers have no land and no economy. Land lease rights, a large number of landless and unemployed farmers were forced to flood into cities. Although the development of urbanization and industrialization in the Philippines in the 1970s was acceptable, it did not achieve a qualitative leap and could not digest such a huge population.

Landless and unemployed farmers have evolved into floating population in urban and rural areas, and unemployment has quickly become a social and social problem. Political turmoil and social unrest lead to further economic decline, which in turn increases the unemployment rate and forms a vicious circle. Another side effect of the green revolution is to introduce foreign capital, encourage capital to go to the countryside to expand agricultural production, and rely on foreign non-profit organizations such as Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation to improve mechanization and scale. However, the serious lack of independence and self-reliance, as well as excessive dependence on foreign capital and technology, eventually led to the Philippines falling into the quagmire of American neo-colonialism.