What Build Build Build has delivered

Nearing the end of the Duterte administration’s term, we don’t seem to be anywhere near the fulfilment of its big infrastructure dream. Build Build Build is supposed to be the centerpiece of what could be a Duterte legacy, but the program’s performance is far from defining a grand exit for the administration.

News

IBON Praymer: Ang pagwawakas sa rehimeng Duterte

July 17, 2021

Neil Doloricon, 63

July 16, 2021

People’s Review of SDG 1 & 10: Regressive gov’t policies hinder poverty, inequality eradication

July 7, 2021

Jobs crisis continues, informal work worsens

July 3, 2021

Ayuda urgent as jobs crisis worsens from govt’s failed lockdowns, response

June 10, 2021

There’s money for bigger Bayanihan 3: Economic managers just refusing to give more — IBON

May 26, 2021

Ayuda still needed even with shift to GCQ

May 15, 2021

Negative econ growth underscores jobs crisis – IBON

May 12, 2021

Features

The economic managers have been using runaway inflation to justify liberalizing rice importation. But government’s obsession with imports liberalization has only worsened the jobs crisis, loss of livelihoods, and farmers’ bankruptcy.

The ill logic of rice liberalization

June 25, 2021

Under the Duterte administration,the Philippine economy was already weak before the pandemic and made worse by inept COVID-19 response.

Duterterioration of the Philippine economy

June 3, 2021

There is a raging debate about whether or not the WTO should temporarily waive some intellectual property rights of Covid-19 pharmaceuticals. Developed countries oppose the proposal, but recently the US has announced its limited support, while the EU continues to wrangle over its necessity. For proponents, the waiver would speed up and scale up vaccine production and contribute to a faster vaccination process in poorer countries.

The TRIPS waiver on Covid-19 pharmaceuticals and the Big Pharma

June 2, 2021

For a nation that supposedly keeps strong traditions of filial piety, it should be a source of shame that many of its elderly are living in poverty and now disproportionately at risk of dying from the coronavirus.

The Filipino elderly are left behind

May 13, 2021

The Duterte government with its EO 130 continues to argue for the reckless exploitation of the country’s vast mineral wealth for other countries’ corporate gains and industrial benefits. This makes the projected gains from large-scale mining even paltrier than they already are. We are giving up the non-renewable resource, the Philippines’ huge potential to industrialize, for nothing.

EO 130: Much fuss about paltry gains

April 26, 2021

The Philippines is not expected to be ahead of the vaccine race being a poor, non-industrial and import-dependent country. But despite our underdevelopment, we still deserve better and more efficient government handling of our predicament.

Mass vaccination PH: Throwing away our shots (Part Two)

April 15, 2021

Infographics

Strong fiscal stimulus? Below average spending worsens in 2021, 2022

Infoposts

Government not underspending? Budgeted too little, didn’t even spend it all

Photoquotes

IBON Executive Director on Duterte administration’s fiscal policy

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