NEDA
The pathetic Php64 food threshold
August 25, 2024
Government policymakers and economic managers are so privileged that they can only make mechanical estimates of a low food threshold that justifies their complacency in poverty eradication.
Job-losing growth in first quarter 2024 is cause for alarm not optimism – IBON
May 10, 2024
The difficulty in creating enough decent and sustainable work which leaves millions of Filipinos to survive off of meager incomes certainly cannot in any way be a source of “optimism and pride,” as the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) put it when the growth figures were released
NEDA misses the point of people’s dissatisfaction — IBON
February 20, 2024
The Marcos Jr administration claims to acknowledge inflation, job creation, food security and poverty woes but their response is to push the same economic policies that cause these to begin with.
Filipino rice farmers need support, not liberalization
November 1, 2020
FEATURES | The government’s defeatist attitude and blind surrender to market forces is the biggest reason why Philippine rice production and domestic agriculture as a whole remains so backward
Govt methodology underestimates number of poor Filipinos—IBON
December 7, 2019
Poverty estimates according to this methodology are unbelievably low and unrealistic
Family living wage for a family of five members in NCR
April 14, 2019
“The choice of official poverty lines is a political one. Setting a high standard indicates the government having a high level of ambition for poverty eradication. Government, however has chosen to set a low standard – in this case, the Php10,481 per month or Php69.87 per day poverty threshold – which results in tens of […]
Lower official poverty estimates don’t mean less poor Filipinos — IBON
April 10, 2019
Research group IBON said lower reported official poverty estimates for the first semester of 2018 unfortunately do not necessarily mean that the country’s poverty situation is improving. The group observed that standard of living allowed by the official poverty line is very low and grossly underestimates the real number of poor Filipinos. Unless corrected, it […]
Bolder measures beyond suspension of fuel excise needed—IBON
October 16, 2018
The Duterte administration’s announcement that it will suspend the next round of fuel excise taxes will not lower current high prices and at best only lessens TRAIN’s inflationary impact next year, research group IBON said. It is however a welcome admission of the inflationary impact of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law, […]
Hinggil sa Rice Tariffication: Gabay sa Talakayan
August 23, 2018
Idownload ang Hinggil sa Rice Tariffication: Gabay sa Talakayan Sa harap ng tuloy-tuloy na pagtaas ng presyo ng bigas at mga batayang bilihin, itinutulak na ng administrasyong Duterte ang rice tariffication upang diumano ay maseguro ang suplay ng bigas at maestabilisa ang presyo nito. Itinuturo rin ng administrasyon ang mataas na presyo ng bigas, kasama […]
