inequality
Gainers and losers under Marcos Jr administration
June 29, 2026
The First Filipino Trillionaire: Enrique Razon
June 22, 2026
Oligarch wealth surged amid worsening poverty
May 15, 2026
What is the government for? Ensuring people’s rights and welfare, and equitable wealth distribution, foremost. But the Marcos Jr administration is doing the opposite, aside from just allowing impunity among its ranks.
In the hands of a few
April 1, 2026
Weak Leadership, Worsening Economy, Rising Stakes
January 12, 2026
FEATURES
2026 could be the year Filipinos turn frustration into action and reshape the political landscape.
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 […]
Post-elections, inequality likely to worsen
May 21, 2025
The economy will likely keep serving the profits of a few and their wealth’s inexorable rise, while millions are left further behind just as in the past administrations.
IBON Calls for Structural Reforms to Address Poverty and Inequality as UN CESCR Reviews Philippine Compliance on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
February 19, 2025
STATEMENT
The economy should stop just making a few oligarchs and foreign capital prosperous. Realizing economic, social, and cultural rights requires more than growth and demands national industrialization, land reform and rural development, just wages and secure jobs, and universal social services.
