15 Biggest Mining Operations in Mindanao

November 1, 2015

APEC to be launching pad: PH should thwart TPP bandwagon, group warns

October 13, 2015

The TPP is expected to eliminate tariffs further on thousands of goods and services, impose stricter rules on intellectual property rights and the supremacy of investor over state interest Research group IBON warned that the upcoming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting will most certainly be used to campaign for a powerful Pacific multilateral trade […]

Over one million jobs generated under Aquino poor in quality

October 5, 2015

Think-tank belies NEDA claim of better jobs climate Poor quality work has marked job generation under the Aquino government, while the country’s jobs crisis reached unprecedented levels. Research group IBON repeated this amid government claims that its mantra of good governance and good economics has led to better job opportunities. At the recently-held Philippine Economic […]

#PHFightAPEC for its hand in the erosion of the PH economy under heightened globalization

September 24, 2015

The Aquino administration is globalization’s poster child The Philippines’ second hosting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation’s (APEC) high-level meetings courtesy of the Aquino administration after two decades finds the country deeper in the quagmire of underdevelopment. This is the cumulative result of intensified implementation of globalization policies that APEC has facilitated. Since the first […]

Local mining contributes to foreign industries but leaves PH with little benefit

September 17, 2015

97% of mineral production in the Philippines goes to foreign industries As the Philippine Chamber of Mines concludes its international mining conference today, research group IBON reiterates that industries of other countries reap more benefits from large-scale mining in the Philippines than the local economy. The three-day international mining conference, held in Solaire Resort Hotel […]

Educators demand immediate pullout of military from Lumad schools

September 10, 2015

Lumad students have always faced disruption of classes every time military operations escalate in their communities Members of the Education Forum for Development (EfD) called for the immediate pullout and disbanding of paramilitary and military groups occupying Lumad communities and disrupting classes in the schools. The EfD expresses concern that Lumad students are not in […]

Educators’ group to Aquino: take action on killing of educator and continued military occupation of Lumad schools

September 2, 2015

Silence or inaction to address matter tantamount to govt’s promotion of big business at the expense of indigenous people’s communities The Education Forum for Development (EfD), a network of 100 schools nationwide advocating transformative education, condemned the killing of Emerito “Emok” Samarca, executive director of the Alternative Learning Center for Livelihood and Agricultural Development (ALCADEV), […]

Address slowing growth, government told

August 28, 2015

The administration’s economic managers should focus on strengthening the agriculture and manufacturing sectors to arrest the current slowdown Research group IBON said that government should be concerned about the country’s slowing growth and the slowdown in agriculture and manufacturing. Although the Philippine Statistics Authority reported that the gross domestic product (GDP) grew in the second […]

Growth to remain unsustainable, shallow under globalization framework–IBON

August 14, 2015

Trend of slowing economy and shrinking production persists precisely because the government has merely continued to rely on foreign markets and capital to push growth Despite recent claims made by Malacanang on the improving economy, the anticipated economic slowdown in the second quarter of 2015 affirms the trend of weakening economic growth. According to research […]