Weak Leadership, Worsening Economy, Rising Stakes

January 12, 2026

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2026 could be the year Filipinos turn frustration into action and reshape the political landscape.

IBON Research Head on Duterte supporters’ call for a week of OFW Zero Remittance

March 26, 2025

“Zero Remittance was a political campaign started by the International Migrants Alliance in 2008, at the time of the global financial crisis, the outset of the global economic stagnation we know today. It was launched to signify migrants’ protest against n neoliberal policies and the financial abuses stemming from these…”

IBON Executive Director on Duterte supporters’ call for a week of OFW Zero Remittance

March 26, 2025

“Like the Duterte brand, it’s all bluster and optics — ultimately empty and devoid of anything meaningful or positive… And like the Duterte brand, if ignored, it has no meaning at all.”

Red Red Whine

November 18, 2020

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Progressive ideas will be tolerated if spoken from armchairs or as rhetoric in speeches and policymaking. But red flags are raised when these ideas are connected to each other and, especially, when they’re borne by the organized power of politicized Filipinos in a mass movement for change.

Dutertenomics off to bad start, says group

May 12, 2016

Presumptive president Rodrigo Duterte’s initial choices for his economic team shows him treading the same Aquino administration path of elitist economics, research group IBON said. It added that Duterte’s early pronouncement on Charter change also strongly indicates continuity with the neoliberal economic policies that have kept Filipinos poor and the economy underdeveloped. The presidential frontrunner’s […]

Di lumingon: The economics of the next administration

April 26, 2016

  By Sonny Africa IBON executive director #BeyondElections2016 | The leading candidates for the presidency project vastly different images: plain but competent technocrat, earnest would-be mother of the nation, beleaguered man of the masses, and of course the coarse yet effective strongman. Filipino voters seem to have a variety of choices in the May 9 […]