Trust in the Philippine Government and Perception of Poverty

This study discusses the trust of poor Filipinos in the Philippine government. It covers matters of trust in different aspects, including services provided in terms of the health system, education system, readiness to protect people's lives against illnesses, climate change, the effectiveness of public service, citizen participation in decision-making, and importance to culture. Trust is measured through the use of the dimensions cited by Blomqvist (2002), which are capability, goodwill, behavior, and self-reference. adopted the questionnaire utilized by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in measuring the trust of the people in government of their member countries. coincides with the dimensions of trust, as explained by Blomqvist, which are based on capability, goodwill, behavior, and self-reference. self-structured questions based on the study Attributions for Poverty: A Survey of Student’s Perception by Samuel (2012). Blomqvist’s dimensional Model Trust's capability, behavior, goodwill, self-reference, respondents mostly agreed with categories for each. confirmed in categories such as trust that government is putting great importance on culture and values, resolving people’s concerns when issues are talked about, allowing people’s participation decision-making, providing services on health, education, administration, majority of the respondents unsure if they trust government as whole. the dimensions of capability, goodwill, behavior, and self-reference are not the only measure of trust of people in the government as they can not affirm a positive perception of people about poverty. Hence, components, reliability, responsiveness, openness, integrity, and fairness, which are cited in the OECD report may be considered to be put into practice to increase trust in government.