Philippine economy
Marcos Sr most anti-nationalist president PH has ever seen
September 20, 2026
Marcos Jr prioritizing US’ strategic needs
September 20, 2026
Like his father, Marcos Jr is using the powers of the state to open up and restructure the Philippine economy, according to the agenda of foreign monopoly capital, especially the US.
Filipinos can’t keep up with prices as wages lag and government help falls short
August 15, 2026
ANALYSIS
Filipinos continue to struggle with the high cost of living as prices keep rising faster than what their incomes can keep up with.
Pax Silica: Whose industrialization is it anyway?
August 12, 2026
The shiny cutting edge high-tech Pax Silica may indeed be different this time. Unfortunately, the way things are going, it will be different in the sense of a new level of dependence and making real Filipino industrialization even harder.
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.
Hyped economic progress at the expense of Filipinos
July 25, 2026
The Marcos Jr administration claims economic success, saying that its policies have brought the country to upper middle-income status. But this seeks to hide a deeper reality: the growth model hyped by the government has made a few prosperous at the expense of millions of Filipinos and the environment. The Marcos Jr administration vowed to […]
Upper middle-income, Lower-end reality
July 6, 2026
The UMIC overhype shows how the government’s presentation of the economy gives disproportionate emphasis to a favorable statistical reclassification while giving comparatively little attention to the country’s persistent structural weaknesses.
