Advocacies

What’s new with the transport sector?
April 10, 2025
Transport Sec. Dizon’s not-so-fresh approach is only reminiscent of the people’s past traumas with privatized transport infrastructure development.

Captive to Big Pharma
April 8, 2025

Worsening informality behind rise in employment – IBON
April 8, 2025
Worsening jobs informality and lack of gainful work is driving the rise in employment and big decline in underemployment as indicated in the latest official data.

NCR Family Living Wage, as of March 2025
April 5, 2025

Low real wages, more expensive food, as of March 2025
April 5, 2025

Hunger increases under Marcos from low family incomes, high prices
March 31, 2025
The number of Filipinos experiencing involuntary hunger has more than doubled since the start of the Marcos Jr administration.

Looking beyond corruption rankings
February 21, 2025
The real challenges are not simply about improving the country’s Corruption Perception Index scores. It is rather in seeking real accountability for high-level abuse of power.

Making upper middle-income status matter
February 20, 2025
Understanding what upper middle-income status really means easily clarifies that it is in many respects just a fantasy.

PH rice industry under liberalization
February 13, 2025