foreign direct investments
Pax Silica’s Cookie-Crumb Investments Will Not Feed the Philippines
July 29, 2026
Through Pax Silica, the Marcos Jr administration allows the plunder of the country’s resources for fleeting cheap jobs and false promises of industrialization.
Cha-cha in Education: An Unnecessary and Distracting Move
May 7, 2024
The education sector in the Philippines will be opened for foreign participation and investment, whether through ownership or other forms of partnership, if lawmakers have their way.
Ang mahalaga sa pag-unlad ng pambansang ekonomiya
March 26, 2024
RELATED: Cha-cha ni Marcos Jr: Isa pang maling hakbang
Econ Cha-cha will not develop PH nor solve livelihood crisis — IBON
January 18, 2024
Cha-cha will only bring more of the same foreign investment liberalization that has stranded the country’s development for decades and left millions of Filipinos struggling amid a jobs crisis.
Political, economic, and cultural control under charter change
April 12, 2023
Proponents in Congress and their private sector cohorts are preoccupied with pushing for charter change. But this will be to the detriment of the Philippines and its people – politically, economically, and culturally.
Millions of Filipinos still poor despite foreign investments
March 23, 2023
Some politicians claim that more FDI after charter change will reduce poverty. However, poverty has stayed high over the years of increasing FDI.
Unemployment worsened even with more foreign investment
March 23, 2023
Proponents of charter change insist that more FDI from changing the Constitution’s economic provisions will create job opportunities and decrease unemployment. Has unemployment decreased as FDI increased?
