Tag: Duterte administration
Cash transfers tokenism in the absence of real reforms
Mayo 30, 2019
4Ps: Myopic, artificial approach to poverty
Mayo 30, 2019
2019 midterm elections results: Harsher policies ahead
Mayo 26, 2019
Administration-backed bets dominated the 2019 midterm elections especially in the Senate. The Duterte administration will certainly fast track its priority neoliberal policies as soon as the 18th Congress opens. It already used its super-majority in the 17th Congress to pass socioeconomic measures aggravating the country’s jobs crisis, poverty, and underdevelopment. More and harsher ones loom […]
Neoliberal amendments loom
Mayo 23, 2019
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WANTED: An Independent Senate
Mayo 11, 2019
Midterm elections have always been crucial for any incumbent, as results will either affirm or reject the programs and policies so far of the ruling party. The 2019 midterm elections, however, appears to be different, as it happens at the heels of the Duterte administration’s implementation of harshest neoliberal economic policies and undermining democracy. The […]
Slower economy affirms undue hype over credit rating upgrade
Mayo 9, 2019
Sign of unsound economy Slower gross domestic product (GDP) growth during the first quarter of 2019 belies any claim of a healthy Philippine economy. Research group IBON stressed that the Duterte administration’s enthusiasm over the recent credit rating upgrade that the country got is unwarranted. Instead of hailing business-biased programs, government should look to more […]
PH debt growth fastest in 9 years
Mayo 9, 2019
