THE COLONIAL ECONOMIC POLICIES OF SPAIN

    The Spain influenced the Philippines with many things through economic, culture, and it affects our history as well. The economic changes that were introduce by Spain are still applicable today. Just like the forced labor or the POLO Y SERVICIO, many Filipino and Chinese males before suffered because of this requirement. All males from 16 to 60 years old were forced to work for the government. They are required to work for 40 days each year, and this males were called polista for they were forced to perform polo. And to compare it to our government today, polo is still happening. Just like the street children who doesn't have a place to go were forced to work by the syndicate, and instead of helping them they are given a task which are not yet right for their age. The street children are forced to beg money to people but at the end this money were given to the syndicate who ordered them to beg, their hardship of doing service to this people are not even helping them in their lives but instead their making the syndicate much powerful because they're the only one who benefits in this kind of service. 
     But not all Filipinos before are forced to do a service for the government, there are some who are exempted. These were the members of principalia or what we called the aristocrats. They are the elite people of the government. But in exchange for not performing the polo they're required to pay the falla, which is one and a half of they're money. 
       These services really affects the way of living of the Filipinos because instead of being with their families and having their lives in the way they want it, they are forced to work for the Spaniards.