IBON Foundation
PH minimum wages are family poverty wages
May 4, 2023
The wages Filipino workers are mandated to receive are below the poverty line.
IBON Executive Director on Pres. Marcos Jr’s meeting with US Pres. Biden
May 2, 2023
IBON Executive Director on Pres. Marcos Jr’s meeting with US Pres. Biden
The State of Filipino Employment Informality
April 29, 2023
Most Filipinos are so poor and lacking savings that they can’t afford to be unemployed. But there are so little regular formal jobs available that the overwhelming majority struggle with self-employment, informal work, or irregular jobs in informal establishments.
PH minimum wages are family poverty wages – IBON
April 28, 2023
Filipino workers and their families are barely surviving on the minimum wage because this is even less than the official poverty threshold for a family of five.
NCR nominal vs real wages
April 26, 2023
Higher inflation is eroding the nominal wage, but due to infrequent and meager wage increases, the real value of this has even declined. In the NCR, the real wage as of March 2023 is the lowest in 12 years and lower than 34 years ago.
Top 10 companies responsible for half of the Philippine’s residual plastic wastes in the last 5 years
April 22, 2023
The global plastic pollution crisis is mainly due to big corporations’ single-use plastic production. Here are the top 10 corporations behind residual plastic waste in the Philippines, contributing to global warming and posing a significant threat to biodiversity.
Sales of agrochemical corporations in the world in 2021
April 22, 2023
The Philippines was among the first countries to promote the use of inorganic chemicals and input-dependent crop varieties through the Marcos Sr-era Green Revolution. To date, the world’s top-selling agrochemical companies are among the suppliers of chemical and inorganic inputs which the Philippine government continues to usher into domestic farms. This has also partly led […]
US military presence in the Philippines, 2016 to April 2023
April 20, 2023
Despite the Duterte administration’s posturing against the US in 2016, the global superpower has essentially maintained a huge military presence in the Philippines until today. Cumulatively, from 2016 to April 2023, there have been a total of 227 drills: 68 sea-related, 116 air-related and 143 land-related. US troops are also currently located in 9 EDCA […]
