Philippine economy

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 […]

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.