To reap what was not sown?

This is a crucial time to rethink our entire strategy for reaping the demographic dividend. While things are bleak from where things stand at present, the experience of our neighbors tells us that a demographic dividend is possible given the right set of policy choices.

News

Joblessness worsens in February and will get worse with ECQ — IBON

March 31, 2021

Measly ECQ aid an afterthought — IBON

March 31, 2021

IBON: Gov’t should rectify, ramp up COVID-19 aid

March 29, 2021

EDSA spirit lives on: Braving authoritarian pandemic restrictions, the people faced the crisis together

February 25, 2021

IBON 2021 Yearstarter Birdtalk Briefing Paper: Solving the pandemic crisis

February 21, 2021

Shifting to MGCQ a short-sighted and desperate move without containing pandemic–IBON

February 18, 2021

Ombudsman sitting on IBON red-tagging complaint for a year

February 11, 2021

IBON Praymer: Di maubus-ubos na sapin-saping krisis

February 6, 2021

Features

FEATURES – The Duterte government can do a lot of things to recover domestic hog production, consumer capacity and the national economy. But it has just opted to cater to private profits, foreign pressures and whims of public officials. And they have just been hogging everything to themselves, as they have done during the pandemic lockdown and beyond.

What’s up, pork? (Part Two)

March 19, 2021

FEATURES – Again, the Duterte government is proposing importation without careful consideration. A year of unscientific and irrational responses – that has been more fatal than the plague itself.

What’s up, pork? (Part One)

March 19, 2021

The Philippines needs a much more ambitious COVID-19 economic response than the Duterte administration’s current business-as-usual approach.

14 Charts: What the Government Has Done to Our Pandemic Economy

February 10, 2021

From a development perspective, the fundamental problem is that CREATE asks the wrong question: what CIT will attract foreign investment? This puts us in a mindless race-to-the-bottom where our fiscal policy is defined by what corporations want rather than what national development and upholding social and economic rights demands.

CREATE’s three mistakes

February 7, 2021

The worst economic collapse in Philippine history and in Southeast Asia is mainly due to the government’s stumbling pandemic response and lackluster economic measures in 2020. If, again, there is more bluster than action in 2021 then real recovery will be much farther away than it should be.

2020 Yearender: Economic lessons from Jose Rizal

December 30, 2020

The pre-pandemic year saw the nation’s pre-existing social and economic woes worsening. Pursuing the people’s economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights is urgent and vital in getting out of the COVID crisis and moving towards real recovery.

Dire state of PH economic, social, and cultural rights

December 27, 2020

Bird Feed

Rosario Guzman

Inequality in a time of pandemic: perspectives and proposals from the global South

Xandra Liza C. Bisenio

Charter change compromises Philippine economy

Xandra Liza C. Bisenio

Gaining ground vs disaster vulnerability

Gie Flores

Where do we go from here?

Jose Lorenzo Lim

Surviving surgery in the middle of COVID-19

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Infographics

Late rollout, slow vaccination

Infoposts

Pork import tariff cuts will lead to revenue losses

Photoquotes

IBON Executive Director on IATF mulling another ECQ extension

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