infrastructure budget
2024 Budget Cuts and Increases From 2023
October 3, 2023
Debt servicing, infrastructure and defense are getting big increases in the 2024 budget. But much-needed service-oriented areas such as education, social work, labor and health are either given negligible increases or defunded.
Chronically ailing PH public health system under Duterte
April 7, 2022
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Duterte has not taken significant measures that will strengthen the public health system and make health services accessible and equitable to the Filipino people.
More for infra and military than education
October 12, 2021
Big budget for infra agencies, low disbursement under Duterte
October 3, 2021
The Duterte administration budgets so much for infrastructure but isn’t even able to spend all of it. The proposed 2022 infrastructure budget is even bigger — shouldn’t more of the allocation be used for health, ayuda and small business support instead?
Inessential infra isn’t more important than health, ayuda
September 16, 2021
What Build Build Build has delivered
July 25, 2021
Nearing the end of the Duterte administration’s term, we don’t seem to be anywhere near the fulfilment of its big infrastructure dream. Build Build Build is supposed to be the centerpiece of what could be a Duterte legacy, but the program’s performance is far from defining a grand exit for the administration.
IBON Executive Director on the Duterte administration’s infrastructure delusion on display at Sulong Pilipinas forum
April 26, 2021
IBON Executive Director on the Duterte administration’s infrastructure delusion on display at Sulong Pilipinas forum
Money to Vaccinate Everyone for Free
December 22, 2020
