How can Marcos lead ASEAN prosperity while PH lags behind? – IBON

May 8, 2026

Slowing growth, soaring prices, and worsening joblessness expose the Marcos administration’s failed economic management and diminish its credibility to lead ASEAN especially at this time of crisis

Poorest regions, least health workers

May 7, 2026

BBM completes stagflationary hat trick: Soaring prices, worsening jobs, slowing growth

May 7, 2026

ANALYSIS

The government cannot claim that it is addressing problems “directly and decisively” when families are forced to pay more for essentials as their livelihoods become even more insecure.

Headline figures mask crisis of informal, volatile labor—IBON

May 6, 2026

The data underscore an economy without stable foundations. Agriculture and manufacturing are critical for broad-based and sustainable growth but continue to fluctuate and deteriorate, while services mainly absorb displaced workers in insecure and low-quality employment.

Inflation burden heavier on millions amid lack of gov’t action

May 5, 2026

The burden of adjusting to the oil price shocks has been shifted onto over 21 million poor and vulnerable Filipino families. The government’s refusal to cut oil taxes and regulate prices reflects a policy failure that leaves the majority to fend for themselves amid a deepening crisis.

PH minimum wages are poverty wages

April 30, 2026

Unemployment rate in Southeast Asia

April 30, 2026

The jobs crisis is real. With weak growth and job-generating economic engines, PH has the highest unemployment in Southeast Asia, followed by Myanmar, Vietnam, Singapore, and Thailand, per available data.

Jobs volatility under the Marcos administration

April 30, 2026

The uncertainty of employment is evident in the increasing volatility of the labor market, which cannot be explained by seasonality alone or by pandemic lockdowns. At the root of the jobs crisis is a sluggish and non-inclusive economy, weakened by the lack of strong domestic production sectors as engines for sustained economic growth. 

Productivity rises, wages stay low, big business wins

April 30, 2026

Workers’ productivity surged, but wages barely increased. Corporations meanwhile reaped big profits.

It is time workers got their fair share of the wealth they created.