A legacy of killing farmers?

Before Rodrigo Duterte concludes his presidency and paints a rosy legacy, let us not forget his bloody record as a relentless attacker of people’s rights to land, food security and social justice even amid a pandemic and crisis exacerbated by worship of neoliberal policies.

News

Red-tagging Kontra Daya convenor delusional–IBON

May 20, 2022

8.3% in Q1-2022 the end of high GDP growth rates

May 12, 2022

Million increase in underemployed: Economy still not creating enough decent work

May 6, 2022

Inflation spikes, yet cash subsidies nowhere in sight

May 6, 2022

Inflation makes NCR family living wage rise to Php1,087

May 5, 2022

IBON backs moves vs red-tagging, hits Ombudsman inaction

April 11, 2022

Wage hike possible with transparency, gov’t support

April 9, 2022

8 of 10 new jobs are just part-time: PH struggles to create quality work as economy reopens

April 7, 2022

Features

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

The administration that is exiting and the new one entering can take a more rational and humane approach to recovering and reforming the economy.

Yearstarter: Seeking better normal in 2022

January 14, 2022

Resources

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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Fixing PH neoliberal economics: What is to be done?

December 28, 2021

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Neoliberal PH underdevelopment

December 17, 2021

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Challenge for the new administration: Fixing the Philippine Economy

November 24, 2021

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Infographics

Duterte’s Borrowing Binge (as of March 2022)

Infoposts

Duterte administration worst for workers since Marcos dictatorship

Photoquotes

IBON Executive Director on prospect of a Marcos-Duterte return to power

Topics

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People Economics

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International

PH-China Relations

PH-China Relations

Environment

Networks

Water for the People

Water for the People

Stop TRAIN Network

Stop TRAIN Network

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NO to KKLD

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Green Action Philippines

Green Action Philippines

AidWatch Philippines

AidWatch Philippines

Consumers International

Consumers International

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IPED EFD

AlterMidya Network

AlterMidya Network