According to Policy Brief No. 4 on `The Filipino child: Global study on child poverty and disparities` released by the United Nations Children`s Fund (Unicef) and the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) in 2010, `Dropouts may appear small in number but they are preponderant among the poor which thereupon turns the wheels of intergenerational transmission of poverty against them. At the personal level, dropping out of school will mean consigning one to a future of low-income trajectory.`
