Programs and policies
Update on the PH rice industry
November 6, 2019
Inflation slowing due to a sluggish economy — IBON
November 6, 2019
Research group IBON said that despite reported slower inflation, daily expenses are still rising and too expensive for the majority of Filipinos who suffer low and stagnant incomes. The group also said that slowing inflation mainly reflects a slackening economy. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported lower nationwide inflation at 0.8% in October 2019 from […]
AWIT!
November 4, 2019
Can’t afford to die
October 31, 2019
My friend’s lola died last month. She was dear to me, as I grew up without grandparents and she was the lola I never had. She once left the country to work as a domestic helper to ensure that all of her eight children would finish school. She liked gardening and ballroom dancing. She loved […]
Solving the NCR mass transport crisis
October 28, 2019
BY SONNY AFRICA
The mass transport crisis is real. And yes, the mass transport crisis can be solved.
Unmet targets: Poor water and sanitation service is failure of privatization
October 25, 2019
WATER FOR THE PEOPLE NETWORK
The public sector has to have the key and central role in providing water and sanitation services. These cannot be made dependent on the narrow profit-seeking motives of private corporations.
No need for Kaliwa Dam
October 24, 2019
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 […]
Agri sector slumps due to continuous government neglect
October 16, 2019
Even prior to rice liberalization, the country has become increasingly dependent on food imports Long-time government neglect and low prioritization has put the agriculture sector in a chronic crisis, said research group IBON. The group said that this is in line with government’s advancement of neoliberal policies favoring local and foreign big business. The Duterte […]