Marcos Jr not a reform president—IBON

Hunyo 28, 2023

Already one year into office, Ferdinand Marcos Jr has failed to pursue reforms that have true development at heart.

IBON Poverty Wages Feature

Hunyo 25, 2023

Filipino workers and their families are barely surviving on the minimum wage because this is even less than the rather low-standard official poverty threshold for a family of five. In other words, Philippine minimum wages are family poverty wages.

PH minimum wages are family poverty wages – IBON

Abril 28, 2023

Filipino workers and their families are barely surviving on the minimum wage because this is even less than the official poverty threshold for a family of five.

NCR nominal vs real wages

Abril 26, 2023

Higher inflation is eroding the nominal wage, but due to infrequent and meager wage increases, the real value of this has even declined. In the NCR, the real wage as of March 2023 is the lowest in 12 years and lower than 34 years ago.

WHO is committed to whom?

Abril 26, 2023

FEATURES

The World Health Organization is supposed to be the lead global institution for health. But it is too easily influenced by powerful HICs and big private institutions in the programs they implement. The COVID-19 vaccine profits they raked in are just the most recent example of this.

Sales of agrochemical corporations in the world in 2021

Abril 22, 2023

The Philippines was among the first countries to promote the use of inorganic chemicals and input-dependent crop varieties through the Marcos Sr-era Green Revolution. To date, the world’s top-selling agrochemical companies are among the suppliers of chemical and inorganic inputs which the Philippine government continues to usher into domestic farms. This has also partly led […]

Cha-cha of economic provisions a smokescreen for political agenda – IBON

Marso 14, 2023

Rewriting the Charter’s supposedly restrictive economic provisions is just a smokescreen for the self-serving political agenda of the Marcos family and of legislators. Changing the economic provisions will not develop the economy.

1.8-million loss in full-time jobs dispels gov’t claim of recovery, robust jobs market – IBON

Marso 10, 2023

The jobs crisis is worsening despite the economy reopening. Sugarcoating only hides the problem and prevents urgent action to help millions of Filipinos struggling to make ends meet.

The right size for development?

Marso 9, 2023

The Marcos Jr administration’s rightsizing program goes in the direction of further weakening the government just when it is so needed to become bigger and better to transform the economy to serve the public interest.