2025 BBM: Budget Badly Made

December 17, 2024

The government easily decides on austerity for the poor, yet just as easily decides to give huge budgets for pork and patronage, infrastructure for the rich, and even sacred debt service.

Rate expectations: Rethinking PH credit ratings

December 12, 2024

The economic managers don’t seem to realize that credit ratings are just, well, credit ratings. These shouldn’t be overstated as any kind of measure of economic performance or much less of national development.

Oligarchs get rich from environmental plunder

November 23, 2024

Building PH disaster preparedness long neglected

November 15, 2024

Are foreign investments in water what we need?

November 13, 2024

FEATURES

The government’s water supply and sanitation map declares the need for further private sector involvement and implies more foreign participation. But will this solve the country’s water predicament?

BBM admin to foreigners: Take our land, please

November 12, 2024

COMMENTARY

The proposal to increase the land lease limit to 99 years really won’t make much difference in making the Philippines more attractive to foreign investment, and certainly won’t mean anything for long-term economic development.

Unpacking data shows labor market getting worse — IBON

November 11, 2024

NEWS ANALYSIS

The nation needs leaders that genuinely care about the worsening welfare of Filipino citizens and are willing to push radical and meaningful measures that will really create better-quality jobs and higher incomes.

Low real wages, more expensive food

November 5, 2024

Government claims its “vigilant measures to stabilize prices” helped keep October inflation within target. But food remains expensive and the low wages of many Filipinos can’t keep up.

Minimum Wage and Family Living Wage Per Region, as of October 2024

November 5, 2024