PH education: shortage of solutions?

January 14, 2012

Reducing state support for education and increasing private sector participation remain the administration’s solutions to the country’s education woes IBON Features— Nine-year old Hilary is an incoming grade four pupil. Every day, she does regular rounds among houses near their community in Quezon City to gather “kalakal”, or pieces of scrap, plastic, and metal to […]

Economic lessons from 2011

December 30, 2011

IBON FEATURES | By Sonny Africa | 2011 gives us insights to inform economic policy-making not just in 2012 but in the coming period of great challenges for Philippine growth IBON Features—The Philippines slipped into another economic downturn in 2011. Adverse global trends are a factor with the world economy three years into what is […]

Gross domestic product by industrial share

December 7, 2011

No new solutions for the crisis, G20 countries in a fix

November 7, 2011

IBON Features | 7 November 2011 | The slow recovery highlights the urgency for policies that are directed in strengthening domestic economies IBON Features— Heads of states of largest and developing nations gathered last week for the Group of 20 (G20) Summit but failed to come up with concrete plans to manage what the International […]

DOF urged: Name PH delegation to crucial Busan Aid Forum

October 6, 2011

AidWatch Philippines | The forum, to be held in Busan, South Korea in November, is considered crucial because it will supposedly define the new direction of aid and development cooperation. As the global community prepares for the much-anticipated High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4), Philippine civil society groups urge the government to name the […]

EfD Mindanao Statement on World Teachers’ Day, October 5

October 5, 2011

As we salute our fellow teachers for the commitment and sacrifice for the development of the youth, we call on the Aquino government to seriously commit to uplift the teachers’ welfare and the state of education The Educators Forum for Development (EFD) Mindanao, an association of teachers and educators espousing education for social transformation, joins […]

EfD salutes teachers on World Teachers’ Day

October 5, 2011

Indeed Filipino teachers, both in the public and private education sector, are unsung heroes in the forefront of shaping the minds of the next generation of Filipinos The Educators for Development (EfD) greets our colleagues in the Philippine education sector on the occasion of World Teacher’s Day and the culmination of the National Teacher’s Month […]

Cha-cha ‘fixation’: Lawmakers fail to learn from economy’s experience

September 21, 2011

Changing the charter out of a fixation to attract foreign investment fails to learn lessons from the past and is going to be a step backward for Philippine development The proposal to amend the economic provisions of the Constitution to lessen restrictions for foreign investments shows that lawmakers still insist on an economic strategy that […]

Real regulation solution to high oil prices

September 20, 2011

This demands real government regulation because of the monopolistic nature of the oil industry With the creation of an inter-agency task force to supposedly review oil overpricing, it is expected that the Aquino administration can already start taking steps to control the unreasonably high prices of oil products. According to research group IBON, this demands […]