PH Southeast Asia’s economic laggard with slowing growth, worst inflation and unemployment—IBON

November 9, 2026

The Philippine’s economic performance is the poorest among its Southeast Asian neighbors.

Jobs crisis deepens as PH unemployment surges, becomes worst in the region—IBON

November 6, 2026

The September surge in Philippine unemployment is the worst among Southeast Asian countries and exposes how millions of Filipinos are struggling to eke out a living amid a worsening jobs crisis under Pres. Marcos Jr, said research group IBON. The administration’s longstanding overreliance on attracting foreign investments and market-driven upskilling of Filipino workers has failed […]

IBON Executive Director on the state of the PH economy

November 5, 2026

National Family Living Wage, as of September 2026

November 3, 2026

PH Critical Minerals: National strategy or US agenda?

October 30, 2026

IBON Executive Director on record low peso

October 28, 2026

Agriculture decline under Marcos Jr

October 20, 2026

How the IMF and World Bank remade the Philippine economy

October 20, 2026

After more than six decades of IMF-World Bank intervention, the question remains—who decides the country’s economic future?

Three-year-high inflation rate for bottom 30%: BBM’s inaction hits poorest hardest—IBON

October 7, 2026

Research group IBON said that the three-year-high 9% inflation rate for the bottom 30% of Filipino families shows that the poorest are bearing the brunt of rising prices amid the Marcos administration’s failure to address unabated oil price shocks. The group said the government’s measures to cushion the impact of price hikes are too small […]