OFWs
IBON Executive Director on the recent US bombings against Iran
June 22, 2025
The Philippine government should stop aligning with militarists and instead condemn the unprovoked US-Israel aggression against Iran.
IBON Research Head on Duterte supporters’ call for a week of OFW Zero Remittance
March 26, 2025
“Zero Remittance was a political campaign started by the International Migrants Alliance in 2008, at the time of the global financial crisis, the outset of the global economic stagnation we know today. It was launched to signify migrants’ protest against n neoliberal policies and the financial abuses stemming from these…”
IBON Executive Director on Duterte supporters’ call for a week of OFW Zero Remittance
March 26, 2025
“Like the Duterte brand, it’s all bluster and optics — ultimately empty and devoid of anything meaningful or positive… And like the Duterte brand, if ignored, it has no meaning at all.”
Until our Mary Janes come home
October 22, 2019
Did you also feel your world stop in 2015 when we thought that Indonesia had executed overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Mary Jane Veloso? Please, not another Flor Contemplacion, not another OFW coming home in a balikbayan box. Putting her kids through school was Mary Jane’s only compulsion for leaving her family and homeland for any […]
Global market-focused education wastes potential of Filipino labor — EFD
May 1, 2018
Filipino educators urge the Duterte government and all stakeholders to mark this year’s International Labor Day as a reminder of the importance of workers and human resources in achieving the country’s development, and how this can be guided only through a nationalist and progressive education system. The Educators’Forum for Development (EFD), a voluntary association of […]
Gov’t Gives False Hopes: Remittances To Boost Yearend Growth
November 30, 2009
Whole-year growth prospects are further diminished by the lack of recovery in export-oriented manufacturing due to sluggish global growth and the impact of recent typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng on agriculture performance… While government remains optimistic that remittances and Christmas spending will help pick up the economy after weak third quarter growth, research group IBON said […]
