IBON Foundation
Higher inflation for poorest Filipinos underscores urgent need for continued cash subsidies
July 8, 2020
NEWS
Higher inflation is problematic but particularly burdens the poorest Filipinos. Inflation rates for the 30% poorest households are higher than the national average. Especially amid historic joblessness, this affirms how the government should continue giving cash subsidies as income support, the group said.
Assert People’s Rights; Resist Tyranny and Terror
July 4, 2020
Duterte’s Pandemic Borrowing
June 30, 2020
The Duterte administration’s foreign borrowing has continued to rise during the pandemic. How much is really to respond to COVID-19, and how much for debt-driven growth and the illusion of development?
Gov’t should check SAP’s gross failure as COVID cases rise – IBON
June 30, 2020
The Duterte government should correct the huge shortfall of the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) especially amid a continuously increasing number of COVID-19 cases. About 9 million out of the target 18 million poor households received only one tranche of emergency aid, or just Php53 per day over 106 days of COVID-19 lockdown.
