Address climate inaction, fund the People’s Green New Deal

To guarantee that everyone benefits from our transition to a greener future, a strong and comprehensive policy framework like the People’s Green New Deal is required. Substantial new public spending and re-directing of private spending is also needed to finance this.

News

Underperforming PhilHealth favored over public services in gov’t health budget – IBON

September 21, 2022

Films remind that woes started by Marcos Sr are far from over – IBON

September 12, 2022

Hike ayuda and labor budgets amid over 20M in informal work — IBON

September 8, 2022

High inflation confirms urgent need for real ayuda

September 8, 2022

IBON: Ayuda budgets slashed amid false claims of recovery

August 27, 2022

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

August 11, 2022

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

Features

The most fundamental cause of poverty is in how the overwhelming majority of Filipinos only have low value-added and low productivity work. This is not for lack of individual effort or capacity but because of the structure of the economy distorted by neoliberal policies.

Invisible poverty, trivial solutions

August 22, 2022

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

Resources

Books

What the Marcos Dictatorship Really Did to the Economy

September 24, 2022

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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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Bird Feed

Xandra Liza C. Bisenio

Multi-layered prison walls, then and now

Jopar Cruz

Wow high-end!

Rogene A. Gonzales

Tales of Tinang and our worsening agricultural crisis

Sonny Africa

Discerning Bongbonomics from the Inaugural Address

Janna Remigio

Is it time to move on?
The resiliency myth

in the News

Infographics

The Family Living Wage as of August 2022

Infoposts

2023 budget: Debt, defense over social services, envi

Photoquotes

IBON Executive Director on the real date Martial Law was declared

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