Recovery stalls with Q2 GDP quarter-to-quarter contraction — IBON

Contrary to the new economic team’s hype, research group IBON said that the quarter-on-quarter contraction of the economy in the second quarter of 2022 shows that recovery remains weak and requires more determined government action. IBON said that reopening the economy is not enough because too many Filipinos are still jobless, earn too little, and […]

News

With among the highest joblessness and inflation in Southeast Asia, PH needs bold econ reforms–IBON

July 20, 2022

IBON joins groups to forward fighting demands to new admin

July 16, 2022

Persisting jobs crisis belies gov’t claims of growth momentum

July 8, 2022

Marcos should admit 3-year high inflation to propose real solutions — IBON

July 6, 2022

New admin needs new policies to fix old problems — IBON

June 30, 2022

1.3M jobs lost: Fall in number of employed bursts full recovery hype bubble

June 11, 2022

Real wages fall as inflation spikes

June 9, 2022

New taxes to pay for Duterte indulgences, not for COVID response—IBON

May 26, 2022

Features

The next administration’s economic agenda will be fully presented at the state of the nation address in July. There are hardly any specifics yet. Still, the tidbits already emerging can be interpreted against the incoming economic team members’ individual track record and especially in the context of the long arc of neoliberal thinking that has defined Philippine policymaking over the last half century.

No Mavericks Among Economic Top Guns

June 15, 2022

FEATURES

The 75th World Health Assembly will be the third one under one of the world’s worst pandemics. What exactly will be the agenda when WHO action is stalling?

WHO should call the shots, but it hasn’t

May 18, 2022

Prices keep rising, cash subsidies are limited, and real wages keep falling. The situation will not get better if the government does not acknowledge that the rampant jobs crisis and worsening poverty are huge problems that require big solutions.

The scourge of price hikes

April 16, 2022

FEATURES

Duterte has not taken significant measures that will strengthen the public health system and make health services accessible and equitable to the Filipino people.

Chronically ailing PH public health system under Duterte

April 7, 2022

At its economic briefing, the Duterte government will likely hype growth, claim successful COVID response and play up so-called reforms. All this seeks to distract from how social and economic development has been set back by the administration even before the pandemic.

10 things about the economy that the Duterte administration should admit

April 4, 2022

We will likely hear claims of strong economic performance, early recovery, and returning to a path of rapid and inclusive growth. But labor force and poverty figures for 2021 already show how any claims like that will just be bluster or, worse, blind to the daily experience of millions of Filipinos.

Scar-crossed Labors

January 17, 2022

Resources

Policy Notes

Our destructive foreign investment fetish

March 28, 2022

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IBON Praymer

Halalan 2022: Ang paghahangad ng bagong ekonomiya

February 17, 2022

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Birdtalk Briefing Paper

Yearstarter 2022: Out with the old, seeking the new

February 5, 2022

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Policy Notes

Fixing PH neoliberal economics: What is to be done?

December 28, 2021

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Policy Notes

Neoliberal PH underdevelopment

December 17, 2021

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Policy Notes

Challenge for the new administration: Fixing the Philippine Economy

November 24, 2021

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Rogene A. Gonzales

Tales of Tinang and our worsening agricultural crisis

Sonny Africa

Discerning Bongbonomics from the Inaugural Address

Janna Remigio

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The resiliency myth

Xandra Liza C. Bisenio

Pressure point

EJ Honorica

Is memory the enemy?

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National government outstanding debt (as of June 2022)

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IBON Executive Director on new admin’s economic plan during SONA

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