Cha-cha of economic provisions a smokescreen for political agenda – IBON

Rewriting the Charter’s supposedly restrictive economic provisions is just a smokescreen for the self-serving political agenda of the Marcos family and of legislators. Changing the economic provisions will not develop the economy.

News

1.8-million loss in full-time jobs dispels gov’t claim of recovery, robust jobs market – IBON

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IBON on the 37th anniversary of the EDSA uprising

February 24, 2023

EDSA@37: Passing the Test, Defending the Lessons

February 24, 2023

IBON blasts Ombudsman for 3-year inaction on red-tagging complaint

February 10, 2023

Worsening inflation makes admin ayuda cuts even more unconscionable – IBON

February 7, 2023

IBON: PDP 2023-2028 non-solution to PH economic crisis

January 30, 2023

Filipinos didn’t feel growth because of ayuda cuts and stingy wage hikes – IBON

January 27, 2023

Rapid 2022 growth just a flash in the pan, poverty even increased — IBON

January 27, 2023

Features

The Marcos Jr administration’s rightsizing program goes in the direction of further weakening the government just when it is so needed to become bigger and better to transform the economy to serve the public interest.

The right size for development?

March 9, 2023

It’s perplexing for the economic team to speak about workers and their wages as if they are a burden to the economy. It’s people who most of all create value in the economy and for whom the economy is for.

“Wage hikes are harmful”: Kung ayaw maraming dahilan

March 6, 2023

The Marcos Jr administration is spinning a dark lie to give the impression that the situation of ordinary Filipinos is improving. The real and whole truth is that it isn’t and, if anything, has even gotten worse in the first few months of the new government.

One Philippines, two worlds

March 1, 2023

The economic managers chronically downplay problems and prefer unfounded sunshine and smugness about the state of the economy. This hinders taking steps towards real solutions.

Why are Filipinos so poor if the labor market is so vibrant?

February 11, 2023

As the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments considers proposed amendments, IBON raises five major points on why economic provisions in the 1987 Constitution should be retained.

On changing the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution: More foreign investment does not mean more development

January 26, 2023

The binding constraint to steadier progress and development is the outdated faith in market forces. The blindness to the state’s responsibility to intervene will mean worse times in 2023. It will also reopen lockdown wounds that were hidden by last year’s rebound but haven’t really healed yet.

Bongbong will be tested on the economy in 2023

January 21, 2023

Resources

The Filipino People’s Water Code

March 23, 2023

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Marcos-Duterte 2023: Patong-patong na Problema

February 12, 2023

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What the Marcos Dictatorship Really Did to the Economy

September 24, 2022

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Our destructive foreign investment fetish

March 28, 2022

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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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Millions of Filipinos still poor despite foreign investments

Infoposts

Worker wages not keeping up with their productivity

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IBON Executive Director on NEDA claim that wage hikes are harmful to economy

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