hunger

Impunity and underdevelopment under Marcos Jr

June 14, 2025

When populists take power, the people become fodder for self-serving ambition, and our goals for development and human rights are, at best, afterthoughts. At worst, they’re trampled on for being inconvenient obstacles to personal wealth and power. The spectacle of political theater and intentional delay of the vice-president’s impeachment trial in the Senate confirms institutional […]

Php20 rice, unli lies

April 27, 2025

COMMENTARY

The president is claiming to do something for hungry Filipinos that he promised long ago but hasn’t really done anything about since he took office.

Hunger increases under Marcos from low family incomes, high prices

March 31, 2025

The number of Filipinos experiencing involuntary hunger has more than doubled since the start of the Marcos Jr administration.

PH food insecurity worsening to among highest in region underscores multiple gov’t failures – IBON

October 16, 2024

NEWS

The Philippines having the third worst incidence of severe and moderate food insecurity in Southeast Asia shows the Marcos Jr administration’s failure on multiple development fronts.

Economy returning to pre-pandemic slowing growth hits poor the worst – IBON

January 31, 2024

Most recent GDP figures puts the economy on the same trajectory of slowing growth that plagued it prior to the pandemic.