COVID-19
EDSA spirit lives on: Braving authoritarian pandemic restrictions, the people faced the crisis together
February 25, 2021
STATEMENT
Our relentless assertion of rights is the country’s brightest hope amid the COVID-19 pandemic, economic crisis, calamities, and worsening authoritarianism.
2021 Yearstarter: Solving the pandemic crisis
February 21, 2021
The Philippines has the worst performing economy in ASEAN and is set to have the worst performing to as far away as South Asia and the rest of East Asia
Shifting to MGCQ a short-sighted and desperate move without containing pandemic–IBON
February 18, 2021
Easing restrictions will not spur recovery without a real fiscal stimulus while risking the more rapid spread of COVID-19
14 Charts: What the Government Has Done to Our Pandemic Economy
February 10, 2021
The Philippines needs a much more ambitious COVID-19 economic response than the Duterte administration’s current business-as-usual approach.
IBON Praymer: Di maubus-ubos na sapin-saping krisis
February 6, 2021
Gumapang ang Pilipinas sa harap ng COVID-19. Dumating kasi ang pandemya na dati nang mahina ang pampublikong sistema sa kalusugan ng bansa. Tatlong taon na ring bumabagal ang ekonomiya, malawakan ang kakulangan sa trabaho, at malalim ang pinagtatakpang kahirapan.
Crisis upon crisis: 2021 Yearstarter Birdtalk highlights
January 23, 2021
It is important that the government acknowledge the enormity of the public health and economic crisis. This is necessary for the vital shift in attitude from business-as-usual to undertaking urgent COVID-19 response and long-term reforms.
The 2021 Yearstarter Birdtalk
January 16, 2021
There’s certainly much we can do to make sure that 2021 is better.
Economic cha-cha is no vaccine for recovery or development
January 13, 2021
The economy’s development lies in using the protections in the Constitution to gain from foreign investment, not in taking away the protections and giving self-interested foreign investment free rein over the domestic economy.
Charter change compromises Philippine economy
January 12, 2021
Pursuing economic Cha-cha in the middle of a public health crisis and unprecedented economic decline smacks of putting vested interests first over squarely addressing the urgent need to create and save jobs, incomes and small businesses.
