neoliberal economics
Marcos Jr Carries on Neoliberal Arc Started by His Dictator Father
September 20, 2023
After Marcos, cronyism was craftly used to justify even greater liberalization, privatization and deregulation during the administrations that followed. Today, Marcos Jr carries on this neoliberal arc started and backed by his father’s regime.
Civil society groups: Agenda 2030 possible with alternative economics, governance
November 29, 2022
Gathering at the heels of various global issue conferences, civil society organizations said that the country’s dominantly business-biased and profit-driven atmosphere keeps it from progressing towards the sustainable goals of Agenda 2030.
What the Marcos Dictatorship Really Did to the Economy
September 24, 2022
The Marcos regime’s extreme cronyism and corruption is commonly blamed. However, the steady shift to neoliberal economic policies is weightier in explaining the depth of collapse in the early 1980s and the subsequent lost decades of development. The article “What the Marcos Dictatorship Really Did to the Economy” is a contribution to the Tanggol Kasaysayan […]
IBON Executive Director on meager increase in the national budget
July 23, 2022
IBON Executive Director Sonny Africa on meager increase in the national budget for 2023
Discerning Bongbonomics from the Inaugural Address
July 4, 2022
Imagine if the inaugural address had mentioned – big fiscal stimulus from more ayuda and support to MSMEs to spur aggregate demand, prioritizing social spending over infrastructure and debt service in the 2023 budget, expanding fiscal space with a billionaire wealth tax, higher wages, arresting environmental destruction by corporations, financial regulation, public ownership, protecting and supporting domestic agriculture, and a comprehensive plan for national industrialization.
Dictator Marcos: 1st PH Neoliberal President
February 25, 2022
Marcos years were not a golden era for the Philippine economy. Neoliberal policies the dictator aggressively pushed were what choked the local economy. These same policies keep the country backward and underdeveloped to date.
IMF sees Vietnam overtaking PH: It’s not because of COVID
October 15, 2020
COMMENTARY
Our economic managers would do well to stop being blinded by their neoliberal dogma and start taking a more strategic view of national development. Without radical changes in our economic policies the Philippines will just keep getting left further behind.
Economy Needing Rehabilitation
January 9, 2019
