When the urban poor say no

Urban poor communities are being demolished to make way for business establishments promising job opportunites. But this is meaningless if they are relocated far from where these jobs are.

News

What’s not being said about PH employment

April 11, 2025

Worsening informality behind rise in employment – IBON

April 8, 2025

Hunger increases under Marcos from low family incomes, high prices

March 31, 2025

Duterte’s arrest and detention is just the beginning

March 12, 2025

High note? Gov’t ignoring millions-rise in part-time, informal workers — IBON

March 6, 2025

IBON on the 39th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution

February 25, 2025

Educator’s Forum for Development on the 39th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution

February 25, 2025

PH gov’t untruthful before UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

February 19, 2025

Features

FEATURES

While the Trump administration represents a rupture from neoliberal globalization, its protectionist stance reflects a deeper continuity. Trump is not repudiating neoliberalism but rather accelerating and concentrating it.

Trump’s hyper-neoliberalism

April 21, 2025

The 2025 elections shall be a game-changer. It shall make us learn the hard way that real democratic change through elections will come when we find policymakers and leaders who are working with the poor in their daily difficulties, in their struggles for a better nation.

Who will stand with the poor?

April 19, 2025

The Philippine government has taken a simplistic view of the tariff imposition.

US PH Tariff: Govt’s misguided optimism

April 16, 2025

The US is undergoing a radical transition from decades of accustomed grand strategies – one that requires a political figure disruptive enough to force that change.

Trump 2.0: The Emperor’s New Clothes

April 14, 2025

The Rice Tariffication Law has allowed unscrupulous traders to proliferate which would explain why rice prices stay high even if all other factors indicate that prices should be lower.

Rice cartels: They who should be named

April 11, 2025

Transport Sec. Dizon’s not-so-fresh approach is only reminiscent of the people’s past traumas with privatized transport infrastructure development.

What’s new with the transport sector?

April 10, 2025

Resources

Discussion Guide

Bakit tuloy-tuloy ang pagtaas ng presyo ng bilihin sa bansa? Ano ang solusyon?

April 14, 2025

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IBON Foundation Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

February 26, 2025

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The implications on the right to health and the people of issues raised in GR Nos 274778, 275405, and 276233

February 25, 2025

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Panahon ng Todong Paniningil

January 28, 2025

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Transport Series No. 2: The Anomaly of Modernization

September 25, 2024

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Birdtalk Briefing Paper

Birdtalk Midyear 2024 Materials

July 15, 2024

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Infographics

Minimum Wage and Family Living Wage per region, as of March 2025

Infoposts

The poor’s calvary

Photoquotes

IBON Executive Director on Trump’s reciprocal tariff formula

Topics

COVID-19

People Economics

People Economics

Build Build Build

Build Build Build

International

PH-China Relations

PH-China Relations

Environment

Networks

Water for the People

Water for the People

Stop TRAIN Network

Stop TRAIN Network

SUKI Network

NO to KKLD

CPDG

POWER

Green Action Philippines

Green Action Philippines

AidWatch Philippines

AidWatch Philippines

Consumers International

Consumers International

Bantay Bigas

IPED EFD

AlterMidya Network

AlterMidya Network